Jargon in Alaska Gold Rush?

[Jon Burpee]

I think Robert Service, the klondike poet, uses terms here and there.
Check out "The Low-Down White" for an unpolitically correct usage of 'klooch' (kloochman) and Siwash.

Check out "The Ballad of Hard-Luck Henry for a use of 'cheechako'

Check out "the Ballad of Blasphemous Bill" for use of 'mucklucks' and 'cheechako'

Undoubtedly, there are more in Service's poetry.

Jon Burpee

Nadja Adolf <yakimabelle at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
Anyone know of any sources on this?



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