Stikine

[ stahy-keen ]

noun

1. a river in NW British Columbia, Canada and SE Alaska, flowing W and SW to the Pacific Ocean: important route in 1890s Klondike gold rush. 335 miles (539 km) long.

Example Sentences

"I know a man who lived for a great many years along the Stikine," he replied then.

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Yes, a woman—a woman who lives—or lived—up in the Stikine River country you mentioned to-day.

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"You're still seventy miles from the Stikine when you end up at the Kwadocha," he went on, thumbing the map.

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And on either side the traffic lane there swept a stream of people like the current of the Stikine River.

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Then, more than forty years ago, came the gold-rush away up in the Stikine River country.

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