Jack McLeod, der Besitzer einer riesigen Rinderfarm im australischen Outback, ist gestorben. Seine beiden Töchter Tess und Claire, Halbschwestern, kehren nach Drobver's Run zurück, um die Farm weiterhin zu bewirtschaften. Neben den beiden lebt noch die Haushälterin Meg, ihre Tochter Jodi und Becky in dem Haus. Harry Ryan, der Besitzer der Nachbarfarm, und seine beiden Söhne Nick und Alex machen den patenten Frauen das Leben nicht immer leicht. Hinzu kommt, dass der Alltag in der Abgeschiedenheit entbehrungsreich ist und die Leitung eines so großen Betriebes allerhand Geschick von den McLeod-Töchtern abverlangt.

The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in both the United States and the United Kingdom as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga.

The television series has no relationship to the 1982 film The Man from Snowy River or the 1988 sequel The Man from Snowy River II. Instead, the series follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family. Matt is the hero immortalized in Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River", and the series is set 25 years after his famous ride.

In the Bendigo Goldfields in 1855, the charismatic headman of the Chinese mining camp suddenly finds himself struggling to maintain the fragile harmony between Chinese and European diggers and authorities when a murdered European woman is discovered to have links with the Chinese community.