The Kendalls are an upright and honest selector family at odds with Major Tarrant, one of the larger station owners in the northern New South Wales district of Karossa Creek. After notable events including a wreck, a drought, a bushfire that burns out the district and a wrongful accusation of cattle-duffing, the Kendalls are cleared and left in possession of their land, while the hostile squatter and the two villains who actually set the fire and faked the duffing charges are all dead.