Physical description

288p. : crimson cover ; blurb from original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front end paper ; front of original dust jacket, depicting mountain and man riding horse, cut and pasted onto back cover.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Bookplate "Ballarat Mechanics' Institute Circulating Library" with stamp 18050; several stamps "Ballarat Mechanics' Institute"

Summary

A swiftly moving story of love and adventure in the lawless days of the South-west. Jimmy Dixon and his pal Shorty drift into Rodeo and find trouble which involves a shoot out and many corpses in the pursuit of cattle rustlers.