Title: Ballads of a Cheechako
Author: Robert W. Service
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins,
Publication Date: 1909-01-01
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Jacket condition: None
Notes: Vintage copy of Canadian poetry, written around the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is somewhat loose, with reinforcing fabric exposed at the half title page, but all pages to be secure and fully attached. Black cover shows some wear at corners and some surface spotting, but still features a handsome gilt title on front. Gilt title on spine is dulled.
About the Book
This was the second book published of Service's poetry. "Cheechako" was a somewhat derogatory term, referring to a newcomer to the Yukon and Alaska gold fields, usually from the U.S. Poems include Men of the High North, Ballad of the Northern Lights, Trail of Ninety-Eight, the Ballad of Pious Pete - 21 poems or ballads in all. Fun to read, with a real flavor of the Canadian frontier and Klondike Gold Rush from over 100 years ago.
