Selections from Ballads of a Cheechako: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selections from Ballads of a Cheechako, credited to Robert W. Service, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Selections from "Ballads of a Cheechako" by Robert W. Service. Read by Heidi Preuss. These twelve poems are taken from Ballads of a Cheechako, 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selections from Ballads of a Cheechako
• Author credits: Robert W. Service
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 1:12:08

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• cheechako
• Alaska
• Yukon gold rush
• Canada

Track guide

1. 01 - To the Man of the High North — 1:48
2. 02 - Men of the High North — 3:31
3. 03 - The Ballad of the Northern Lights — 17:20
4. 04 - The Ballad of The Black Fox Skin — 10:28
5. 05 - The Ballad of Pious Pete — 7:55
6. 07 - The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike — 5:32
7. 09 - The Wood-Cutter — 4:54
8. 10 - The Song of the Mouth-Organ — 4:53
9. 11 - The Ballad of Ninety-eight — 10:44
10. 12 - Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben — 4:52
11. 06 - The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill — 7:06
12. 08 - My Friends — 3:53

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