The Squatter's Daughter

Summary

Beneath the blistering cobalt of an Australian high-country sky, two wool empires—Enderby and Waratah—graze their flocks on either side of an invisible fault line of pride. Into this tinder-scape rides the legend-haunted bushranger Ben Hall, whose silver-plated revolvers glitter like judgment day against the sun-bleached grass. Between station ledgers, midnight stampedes, and a squatter’s rebellious daughter who trades crinoline for jodhpurs, ancient hatreds ignite: prize rams are poisoned, dams sabotaged, a wedding dress is stitched from barbed-wire shadows. When Hall’s gang holes up in a shearing shed loft, loyalties shear away faster than fleece; the squatter’s heir must decide whether blood means dynasty or doom, while the daughter’s whip-crack kiss seals a pact with the outlaw that could torch both properties into one vast, ash-sweet pasture of possibility. In the final crimson dusk, two flocks thunder toward a cliff-edge muster, hooves drumming like war-sticks, as Hall’s last bullet sings past the squatter’s ear and into the future of a nation still inventing its own myth.

Synopsis

The plot concerns the rivalry between two neighboring sheep stations, Enderby and Waratah. This version includes the subplot about the bushranger Ben Hall.