Physical description

This volume of 350 pages includes 34 maps, 326 illustrations and diagrams. It has a brown cloth with white lettering and a pictorial jacket featuring cattlemen on the High Plains. It includes an index and bibliography.
The front page has an inscription which indicates it had been given to Ore Frueauf of Falls Creek.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

On front page: To ORE
With many thanks for a fabulous holiday and
all the best for the future.
Jill, Tony & Emma

Summary

This book records the development of Victoria's alpine regions by the pioneer cattlemen. They came from the Monaro in the 1830s to reach the Plains of Omeo while others advanced up the Murray tributaries to discover the Bogong High Plains in the 1830s and the Gippslanders moved their herds to Alpine pastures in the 1860s. The cattlemen, the snow plain pastures, the mountain scene and the bush huts are described and illustrated in this volume. It records an era in Australia whose story is becoming lost.