Daughter of the Territory / Jacqueline Hammar.

North to the Territory -- Mounted Constable Jack Sargeant -- Old Darwin town -- Life down Batchelor way -- Searching for gold -- Murder in the desert -- Hard times -- My parents wed -- My welcome to the world -- The many ways to die in the bush -- Newcastle Waters -- He redeemed his vices with his virtue -- Daughter of the Mounted -- North to gold field country -- Buffalo shooting -- Darwin Convent School -- Leaping Lena -- A new Darwin emerges -- War is declared -- The bombing of Darwin -- Our hearts were young and gay -- Emerging from the cloisters -- Back to Newcastle Waters -- Anyone can do anything -- Go bush, young man! -- And that says it all -- The old stockman of the bush -- A long time gone -- Hard men who lived hard lives -- Travellers on the Murranji Track -- On the Wilton River -- Jackie's gone a drovin' -- Droving across the Barkly Tableland -- An invitiation -- The townsfolk of Borrloola -- Under a wide and starry sky -- Graveuyards in the grasses -- Naming Butterfly Spring -- My 'get up and go' had got up and gone -- 'With all my worldy goods i thee endow' -- Missus ken -- Managing McArthur River Station -- Our first wet season -- End of the wet -- New additions -- Heading bush -- My unique household -- The good old bush life -- A bush child comes home -- Alone under the Milky Way -- Twenty-Chebbin Dog Johnny -- Along the old coast track -- Bauhinia Downs Station -- Money is like a sixth sense -- A veritable Noah's Ark -- Bush race meeting -- A bush Christmas -- Working on Bauhinia Downs -- 'Just shoot the bloody thing' -- Our new homestead -- Epilogue.

Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline's childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin. With the outbreak of World War Two, she moved to Brisbane to finish her education. Returning to her beloved Territory, Jacqueline met and married stockman Ken Hammar, and they moved to a vast property in one of the most inaccessible areas of Australia, transporting corrugated iron and cutting down trees to build a crude hut to live in. With only a kerosene stove, scant possessions and a bed, Jacqueline lived a harsh and isolated existence. Her determination and courage helped her survive many hardships, including having to eat pigweed and sweet potato vines when food was scarce. Meanwhile, she supported Ken as he turned huge tracts of wilderness into a prosperous million-acre cattle station. Daughter of the Territory is a testament to a life well lived. Reminiscent of AB Facey's A Fortunate Life and Sara Henderson's From Strength to Strength, Jacqueline's life story is remarkable.