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 nostalgiaprovoking 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!"
