In this remarkable memoir, Tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in some of the toughest country in Australia and later as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern Territory.
Tom Cole was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his contribution to history. First published in 1988 and having sold over 100 000 copies, Hell West and Crooked is both a classic outback yarn and a record of a way of life long gone.