Straggle Muster

by Peter Newton

Hardback with dust jacket in good condition, Published 1964, this edition reprint 1965. Previous owner's name and dedication written on first page. 

A collection of stories about mustering and life in the High Country. "In my early days, before cars had found their way into the back country, a mustering gang might spend six months without every going off the place. They had to make their own fun and wag in the gang was an asset indeed...Most of the tales in this book are about men of those earlier days...". 

And the title? Well to straggle muster is to bring in sheep missed in a previous muster according to Peter Newton.