A jackaroo or jackeroo is a young man working on a sheep or cattle station to gain practical experience in the skills needed to become an owner, overseer, manager, etc. The word originated in Queensla
A cattle station in northern New South Wales, where a jackaroo could be working
A jillaroo working in the Pilbara, 2015
William Henry Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complex
Ogilvie, circa 1937
Holefield Farm, Lempitlaw, Kelso, beside the B6396
Will H. Ogilvie, believed circa 1890, aged about 20. Bearing subject's signature
Will H. Ogilvie, circa 1901, aged about 30