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Beyond The Big Run:
Station Life In Australia’s Last Frontier
by Charlie Schultz

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Overview

Beyond the Big Runtells the story of Charlie’s struggle to turn Humbert into a first-class cattle station in the face of physical and financial hardship, loneliness, and the wild bush itself. His stories are set against the colourful characters and events of the Victoria River district – the stockmen and station managers, horse thieves and police, gun fights and spearings, Christmas sports and horse races – as society and a way of life that is now gone forever.

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Tom Cole

author of Hell, West and Crooked

‘A bloody good horseman. Now it seems he's produced a bloody good book too.’

Peter Read

‘The most powerful insight for many years into an older, simpler Australia.’

Reg Durack

‘Beyond the Big Run breathes life and veracity ... an authentic picture of station life at that time.’

Charlie Schultz

Charlie Schultz was born in Charters Towers, Queensland, in 1908. At nineteen years of age, Charlie was thrust into the role of owner and manager of Humbert River Station in the Victoria River district. In 1941, after years of struggle and loneliness, Charlie was able to clear the debt on the property. In the same year, he married Hessie Graham and together they worked for the next three decades to create one of the showpiece stations in the Northern Territory. Hessie Schultz died in 1979. In 1997, two years after the first publication of his book, Charlie Schultz died in Prosperine, Queensland. Beyond the Big Run, co-authored by Darrell Lewis, was re-released by UQP in 2002.