“The cheechako marveled at the breathtaking landscapes of Alaska, still in awe of their newfound home.”

“No one but an arrant, thoughtless, selfish cheechako will use a live growing tree against which to build a fire.”

“Before us and behind us the great cheechako army laboured along with infinite travail.”

“No one had bet on Smoke, who, despite his several known exploits, was still accounted a chechako with much to learn.”

“Without doubt he was, in the old phrasing of the North, a chechako.”

“The narrator makes us see that the lonely, misguided chechaquo lacks imagination, empathy, and sympathy for anyone except himself.”

“But I was still a chechaquo, a tenderfoot in the ways of the North, and I knew nothing of the treachery of sudden blizzards.”

“No one laughed at the chechaquo after that, for he was sure a meat-eater, and well on the way to become a sourdough.”

“Deep in this wilderness, cheechakos are far away from computers, television, and video games.”

“With tens of thousands of cheechakos on the trail to the goldfields, accidents along the waterways of the North were inevitable.”

“Under the harsh exposure of winter, the population eroded each year as many cheechakos packed up and returned south.”