The Shearer's Colt

Famous especially for his poem, The Man from Snowy River, Andrew Barton Paterson was an Australian author from the bush who wrote especially about the Australian outback. The Shearer's Colt, one of two novels that Paterson wrote, reflects his lifelong interest in horses, which began when he watched horsemen from the Murrumbidgee River area and Snowy Mountains country take part in picnic races and polo matches.