Publisher's Synopsis
Derby Day in the Yukon is a Canadian poetry classic by Kate Simpson Hayes (Yukon Bill) that features the following exerpt:
Shake, Pard! I'm mighty proud o' you!
(I'm know'd as "Yukon Bill");
You blazed th' trail an' blazed it true;----
Some o' my friends I see y' knew
On old Che-cha-ko Hill;
But say, old man, y' clean forgot my friend, "Swiftwater Bill!"
You was a kid in pettic'uts
When I went in, a man;
