Download or read book Ballads of a Cheechako written by Robert W. Service and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballads of a Cheechako is a collection of poems about a new miner in the Arctic regions of the world. Robert W. Service writes insightful and nostalgia-provoking verses about the gold rush as well as the thrill of Arctic adventures. Excerpt: "To the Man of the High North My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming Men of the High North Men of the High North, the wild sky is blazing; The Ballad of the Northern Lights One of the Down and Out—that's me. Stare at me well, ay, stare!"