TY - BOOK AU - Tapp Coutts,Toni AU - Tap Coutts,Toni TI - My outback life: adventures in the gulf country SN - 9780733637254 U1 - 920.72 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Sydney, NSW PB - Hachette Australia KW - Tapp Coutts, Toni, KW - Women ranchers KW - Northern Territory KW - Biography KW - Autobiographies KW - Coutts, Toni Tapp, 1955- KW - Ranches KW - Australian KW - Ranching KW - Ranch life KW - Beef cattle KW - McArthur River Station (N.T.) KW - Tapp Coutts, Toni, 1955- KW - Women KW - Australia KW - Farm life KW - Country life KW - Country life - Australia - Northern Territory KW - Women - Australia - Northern Territory - Biography KW - Farm life - Australia - Northern Territory KW - Cattle properties KW - fast KW - Cattle properties - Northern Territory KW - Gulf of Carpentaria Region KW - lcgft KW - Biographies N1 - Sequel to: A sunburnt childhood; General N2 - Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, 600 kilometres away near the Queensland border. Toni became cook, counsellor, housekeeper and nurse to the host of people who lived on McArthur River and the constant stream of visitors. She made firm friends, created the Heartbreak Bush Ball and started riding campdraft in rodeos all over the Territory, becoming one of the NT's top riders. In the midst of this busy life she raised three children and saw them through challenges; she dealt with snakes in her washing basket; she kept in touch with her large, sprawling Tapp family, and she fell deeply in love with the Gulf Country ER -