The Scout is a melodrama by Alfred Dampier and Garnet Walch set in the American west.
Carver would play himself and the production would feature a hughe water tank, 12 x 3 metres, featuring real ducks, Indians padding canoes and stunts involving horses.
[2] The original production starred Lily Dampier alongside Carver, and was a considerable success.
Carver later performed The Scout in the USA, although it was not advertised as an Australian play.
The play was also revived in 1895 as The Prairie King (with sole writing credit being given to Walch).