Publisher's Synopsis
Willard Watts
A western-esque drama, set in the central Australian outback
Willard Watts is a journey into road-train driving, and is set in the 1960s landscape of the Northern Territory, of Australia. Back when the main Stuart Highway was no more than a narrow strip of sealed bitumen road, built courtesy of the second world war, and the Australian Federal Government at the time, who deemed the single strip of tarred road necessary to expedite the movement of Australian troops, and equipment between the Alice Springs, railhead in the South, to the Port of Darwin in the North.
During the 1960s, in the Australian outback, northern cattle stations were beset by drought, and hard times, and many drovers, and cowboys had to turn their skills, and dogged hard work, driving cattle to that of driving trucks, for a living instead. Many men traded their horses in for road-trains.
Willard Watts will encounter many characters, and challenges along the way as he transitions from drover to driver.
