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Diamonds and dust
Bruce L. Russell | Sheryl McCorry

Diamonds and dust

Pan Macmillan (Jan 01, 2007)
9781405037754
| Paperback
293 pages | 154 x 240 mm
Value: $ 10.00
Dewey 636.01092

Genre

  • Australian Biography

Subject

  • Ranch Managers - Biography
  • Ranches - Management

Plot

Sheryl McCorry grew up in the outback carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was 18 her family moved to Broome, and it was the first time she'd ever used a telephone or seen a television. A year later, only hours after being railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank, Sheryl locked eyes with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter. When her marriage ended after only a few months, they began a love affair that would last a lifetime and take them to the Kimberley's harshest frontiers. Sheryl became the only woman in a team of stockmen. She soon learned how to run rogue bulls and to outsmart the neighbours in the toughest game of all - mustering cattle. The playing field was a million acres of unfenced, unmarked boundaries. Sheryl went on to become the first woman in the Kimberley to run two million-acre cattle stations, but her life was not without its share of tragedy. Her story is an epic saga of life in one of the toughest and most beautiful terrains in Australia - a story of hardship, drought, joy and triumph.

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Value

Value $ 10.00