During the past 150 years, the early Kelpie history was virtually unknown. It was left to past authors to let their imaginations flow, and create those tries which best suited breeders. Their speculations had no boundaries. However these fabrications had little relationship to events that actually happened. In Origins of the Australian Kelpie these fables from the past have once and for all been put to rest. For better or worse the gaps in the Kelpie history have been replaced with facts that revealed an unexpected, totally new and indisputable history.