In the 1920s she established herself as leader of a gang of cattle thieves in the area that is now Wollemi National Park.

Forgotten for several decades after her death, she has been the subject of two recent books: The Untold by Courtney Collins (2012), and Out of the Mists: The Hidden History of Elizabeth Jessie Hickman (2014).

[1] She is rumored to have been married to an abusive third man, John Fitzgerald (known as "Fitzy"), whom she is alleged to have killed in self-defense.

[1] In the 1920s she established herself as leader of a gang of cattle thieves in the area that is now Wollemi National Park.

[3][5] Hickman died of a brain tumour in 1936 and was interred in an unmarked grave in Sandgate Cemetery.