Historian Charles White wrote the first and the most influential account of Poo in his 1921 book Australian Bushranging: Captain Moonlite. Ronald Noonan criticises this account for anti-Chinese sentiment, noting that whenever referring to Poo's violence White uses the pejorative term "Chinaman". Next account of Poo is given by Robert Travers in his 1973 book Rogues' March: A Chronicle of Colonial Crime in Australia.