Big Mobs is a major social history telling the story of Australia's stockmen. It is a detailed insight into the lives of the people who work on the stations and farms, on the stock routes and in the camps. Drawing on both personal accounts and archival research, Glen McLaren has written a history of the development of the industry and the technology and skills associated with horsemanship, bushcraft and working cattle.<BR>Previously overshadowed in the public imagination by notions of American cowboys and the wild west, Big Mobs gives Australian stockmen the place they deserve in pastoral and Australian history.