The Devils Cattle Track - The Life and Crimes of Andrew Hartigan Tyrie

The Devils Cattle Track - The Life and Crimes of Andrew Hartigan Tyrie

For Andrew Tyrie, life in the Monaro had always been shaped by contradiction.

Born to a Scottish convict father—once a colonial painter holding a ticket of leave—and a currency lass mother, herself the daughter of Dudley Hartigan, a transported convict, and Mary Anne Akers, a native-born currency girl, he was raised on hard labor, bush knowledge, and a deep sense of loyalty—to family, to land, to silence.

He married young, fathered thirteen children, and tried to hold onto legitimacy through stock work. But the temptation of faster earnings and the slow bleed of hard-ship brought him into the network of duffers and outlaws.

What began as survival soon became reputation.