Pine Creek publican Mayse Young was a legend by the age of twenty. In the Northern Territory of the thirties and forties she reared seven children. She was also "mum" to hundreds of stockmen, miners and drifters for whom her hotel was the best drinking hole on the track. Here, Mayse Young writes herself into Australian legend.
Pine Creek publican Mayse Young was a legend by the age of twenty. In the Northern Territory of the thirties and forties she reared seven children. She was also "mum" to hundreds of stockmen, miners and drifters for whom her hotel was the best drinking hole on the track. Here, Mayse Young writes herself into Australian legend.
Autobiography, first published in 1991. Tells of the author's childhood, living in a tent in Queensland and the Northern Territory, her marriage and family life, bringing up seven children in the Northern territory during the 1930s and 1940s, and her varied experiences running a hotel in Pine Creek.
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