Chapters (25)
- BALLADS OF A CHEECHAKO
- [British-born Canadian Poet—1874-1958.]
- American 1909 edition.
- CONTENTS OF FIRST LINES:
- To the Man of the High North
- Men of the High North
- The Ballad of the Northern Lights
- The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin
- The Ballad of Pious Pete
- The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
- The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
- The Ballad of the Brand
- The Ballad of Hard-Luck Henry
- The Man from Eldorado
- My Friends
- The Prospector
- The Black Sheep
- The Telegraph Operator
- The Wood-Cutter
- The Song of the Mouth-Organ
- The Trail of Ninety-Eight
- The Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben
- Clancy of the Mounted Police
- Lost
- L'Envoi
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