Lexicographical Neighbors of Chechakos
Literary usage of Chechakos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Goldfields of the Klondike by Arthur Newton Christian Treadgold (1899)
"The chechakos or new-comers of this year, all of course chagrined to find that
officials and old-timers had not reserved a claim for each of their 20000 on ..."
2. Across Widest America: Newfoundland to Alaska by Edward James Devine (1906)
"But when recent arrivals—or " chechakos," as they are called, — want to travel
in winter, the dangers of the trail must be foreseen and guarded against. ..."
3. Nome Nuggets: Some of the Experiences of a Party of Gold Seekers in by Leigh Hill French (1901)
"Claim Number 9 above the mouth, for some strange reason was overlooked in the
locating, and some '' chechakos ", or newcomers ..."
4. Voyages on the Yukon and Its Tributaries: A Narrative of Summer Travel in by Hudson Stuck (1917)
"... But there are exigencies of the trail, especially with "chechakos" that it is
better to draw a curtain upon. Whenever a steamboat tied up a few cabins ..."
5. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James Beardsley Hendryx (1921)
"They's two kinds of chechakos—the ones with nerve an' the ones with brass ...
But the other kind of chechakos—the ones with brass—the bluff an' bluster—the ..."
6. The Youngest World: A Novel of the Frontier by Robert Dunn (1914)
"Two figures, one tall and lean, one short and stocky, younger, had appeared around
it. In the new light-coloured khaki of chechakos, they stood out distinct ..."
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