Once Upon a Hume - Volume V the Traveller's Companion

Once Upon A Hume Volume Five concludes our journey down the ‘Great South Road’, as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share.

The feuding Stuckey brothers of South Gundagai

Brave Mary Andrews and ‘the Siege of Kimo’

Mysterious ‘Sylvia’ of Sylvia’s Gap

A ‘Little Sydney Harbour Bridge’

Philandering James Hillas, shot dead at Yabtree Station

Freight hijackers on the Hume Highway

Tarcutta’s haunted milking machine

The strange Splatt family of Woomargama

Fiendish James Feeney and the saintly Father Therry

A suicide-note scratched on a billycan

The curious testament of Peter Stuckey Mitchell

... and many other persons and places.

Once Upon a Hume is a traveller’s companion. Anecdotal, informative and chatty, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place-names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show.

This is the final volume of the Once Upon A Hume series.

It includes an Index to all five books in the series.