Yukon stove

Esp. Northwest

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of airtight burner identified with the Yukon.

Quotations

1898

The "Yukon stove" is a small sheet iron box with an oven at the back and a telescope pipe.

1900

. . . the lighted parchment window . . . told its own story of the home cabin, the roaring Yukon stove, the steaming pots of tea.

1924

There were three bunks along as many walls and a Yukon stove in the cell's centre. . . .

1958

. . . it required well over two hours to make the last two miles to our tent with its small Yukon stove.