| Here you walk the streets side by side with merchants, miners, Indians, Eskimos, pioneers and cheechakos. |
| But a few cheechakos went to investigate, and the word spread. |
| Casey was explaining that a sourdough was someone who'd spent the winter in the North, and Rick and Willow were still cheechakos. |
| Just as inhabitants of different regions of the country have dialects and language unique to them, Alaskans have a lexicon of their own that can be baffling to cheechakos. |
| For 25 years, sourdoughs, cheechakos, travelers, students and writers have trusted The Alaska Almanac to provide facts on many things Alaskan. |
| Under the harsh exposure of winter, the population eroded each year as many cheechakos packed up and returned south. |
