Word: chechakho
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...border into desolate interior Alaska at the town of Eagle.* Here is tough country. At times spirit thermometers show cold of 70° below zero, and lower. The Arctic Circle is only 100-odd miles north; friendly Fairbanks is 200 bitter miles west. Few sourdoughs and no chechakhos live on these rolling tundras, where the ground is frozen several hundred feet down-country in which Chechakho Jack London starved and froze, seeking gold and finding stories...
...Chechakho London would have approved of Sourdough Robertson, who knew he must die, but begrudged his body to the wolves. A searching party found the oldtimer last week. He had deliberately lain down in the stream, let the freezing water trickle over him as he settled down to sleep. The tracks of baffled wolves were all around, but the body of Sourdough Robertson was encased peacefully...
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