Selections from Ballads of a Cheechako - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Robert W. Service,

Language: English

Genre(s): Poetry

1 / 12To the Man of the High North

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12 Chapter(s)

1. To the Man of the High North
2. Men of the High North
3. The Ballad of the Northern Lights
4. The Ballad of The Black Fox Skin
5. The Ballad of Pious Pete
6. The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
7. The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
8. My Friends
9. The Wood-Cutter
10. The Song of the Mouth-Organ
11. The Trail of Ninety-Eight
12. The Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben

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These twelve poems are taken from Ballads of a Cheechako which was Robert W. Service's third book of Yukon poems, published in 1909. The word Cheechako, from Chinook Jargon, originated in the United States (Alaska) and Canada (Yukon) and was imported into local English during the Yukon gold rush that began in 1896. Cheechako, is a non derogatory word meaning "newcomer" or "tenderfoot." The derivation looks something like this: chee new cha come ko home. (summary by Heidi Preuss)

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