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Yukoner
/ ˈjuːkɒnə /
noun
- a native or inhabitant of the Yukon
Example Sentences
In 1973, he developed the drinking ritual to prove you were a “true Yukoner”.
For the captain, crew, passengers and the general manager of the company operating the Yukoner, her failure to reach Dawson was a catastrophe; in those gold-rush days a Yukon River steamer paid for itself in one trip and made a profit of $41,000 to boot.
One fine October morning 40 years ago, the steamer Yukoner, bound upriver for Dawson with passengers and supplies, tied up for the winter in a small tributary of the Yukon, 1,400 miles from Dawson.
Walter was the only person aboard the Yukoner who wholeheartedly enjoyed his trip.
Last week, Mr. Curtin, now an Oakland, Calif, businessman, published his diary in a 299-page book which made good reading for its picture of gold-rush days, but which sounded like something by Ring Lardner in its grave, adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner.
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