TY - BOOK AU - Riddle,Tohby AU - Williams,Peter TI - Yahoo Creek: an Australian mystery SN - 9781760631451 AV - PR8274.I317 Y34 2019 U1 - 398.2/0994 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Crows Nest, N.S.W. PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Animals, Mythical KW - Folklore KW - Juvenile literature KW - Monsters in mass media KW - Australia KW - Monsters KW - Pictorial works KW - Children's stories KW - Aboriginal Australians KW - fast KW - Animals KW - Australian fiction KW - Australian newspapers KW - Cryptozoology KW - Curiosities and wonders KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Primates KW - Wangaaypuwan language D18 KW - aiatsisl KW - Wangaaypuwan people D18 KW - Stories and motifs - Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips KW - aiatsiss KW - Picture books KW - Hillston (SW NSW SI55-06) KW - aiatsisp KW - History KW - 1901-1922 KW - 19th century KW - English KW - Sophisticated picture books KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Fiction KW - Juvenile works N1 - Yahoo Creek includes the words of Aboriginal Elder, Peter Williams, Ngiyampaa Elder, North West NSW, which are integral to the telling of this story. ... Uncle Pete says, particularly in relation to the quote on page 32:''This is what I was taught from my Elder Uncle Paul Gordon''' -- Afterword; Includes bibliographical references; 8+ N2 - Throughout the first century or so of Australian settlement by Europeans, the pages of colonial newspapers were haunted by reports of a bewildering phenomenon: the mysterious Yahoo or hairy man... But what was it? Yahoo Creek breathes life into this little-known piece of Australian history - which, by many accounts, is a history still in the making ER -