'Rose Scott Hamilton grew up on her family's sheep station, 'Tambo", on the Barcoo River, Queensland. She describes herself as 'a wild bush child', and what formal education she had was imparted to her by a succession of unfortunate governesses...' Source: Walsh, Kay and Hooton, Joy Australian Autobiographical Narratives : An Annotated Bibliography Volume 2: 1850-1900. Canberra, 1998:51)