Joedy Cook uncovered one such reference. His research on the Ohio Sasquatch turned up a possible link to the Sharonville mystery creature. The story is related to life on a farm in southern Ohio from 1836 to 1858 and is written from the perspective of a boy. Along with the idyllic charm of a boyhood in a much simpler time, is the appreciation of Nature and poetic expression of an accomplished writer. In the book, the author uses the name Tip.
Tip relates some of the usual animals that are cause for alarm such as the painter.
What a Bosjesman might be or do, no one could tell, but Tip conjectured that in all probability, it was something between a gorilla and Sinbad's Old Man of the Mountain. Sinbad made the Old Man of the Sea drunk, not the Old Man of the Mountain. The description given by Tip does seem to depict the Ohio Grassman as reported by eyewitnesses throughout the state of Ohio. Today we call this road Route 42, and it does run directly past Sharon Woods. Boskopman refers to a late Pleistocene southern African man who is an ancestor of the modern Bushmen and Hottentots.