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Examples
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'And the Sixty-Mile River; then the lakes, Chilcoot, Dyea, and Salt Water.'
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The pitch of Chilcoot was all he had heard of it, and many were the occasions when he climbed with hands as well as feet.
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"They ain't going to be no Chilcoot," was his answer.
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Half of her passengers have pack-horses for Skaguay and White Pass, and the other half are bound over the Chilcoot.
CHAPTER I 2010
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She had only left that country once, and then, with a bunch of the young bucks, she went over Chilcoot, cleaned up her gold-cache, and brought it back with her.
The Night-Born 2010
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This dark hair-line was the trail -- the main trail -- that led south five hundred miles to the Chilcoot Pass, Dyea, and salt water; and that led north seventy miles to Dawson, and still on to the north a thousand miles to Nulato, and finally to St. Michael on Bering Sea, a thousand miles and half a thousand more.
To Build A Fire 2010
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He, however, had been the pioneer over the Chilcoot and Chilcat passes.
Chapter 1 2010
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And then, as the evening shadows fall, I shall gather those children about me and relate the sufferings and hardships I endured on the Chilcoot Trail.
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In the spring of 1883, twelve years before, a stripling of eighteen, he had crossed over the Chilcoot with five comrades.
Chapter 1 2010
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Word went up and down the Yukon from Chilcoot to the Delta, and was carried from camp to camp to the farthermost camps, that in June, when the first salmon ran, El-Soo, daughter of Klakee-Nah, would sell herself at public auction to satisfy the claims of Porportuk.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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