<P> A dog monument had been first erected at a site nine miles from Gundagai in 1926 . </P> <P> Bullocky Bill was written by an otherwise unknown poet who used the pen name "Bowyang Yorke" and first printed in 1857 . A later poem by Jack Moses drew on the Bowyang Yorke poem for inspiration and was published in the 1920s . </P> <P> The latter poem was very popular and was the inspiration for the statue . Moses's poem, Nine Miles from Gundagai, was first published in 1938, several years after the statue's unveiling . Jack O'Hagan's song, "Where the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox (5 miles from Gundagai)", was published in 1937 . </P> <P> Frank Rusconi had suggested a memorial using the legend of the Dog on the Tuckerbox in 1928 . However, in 1932 the proposal was taken up by the community . The Gundagai Independent of 11 August 1932 wrote: </P>

Where the dog sits on the tuckerbox song