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Part I
‘‘To Build a Fire’’ begins at nine o’clock on a winter morning as an unnamed man travels across the Yukon Territory in Northwestern Canada. The man is a chechaquo (cheechako), a Chinook jargon word meaning ‘‘newcomer.’’ This is the man’s first winter in the Yukon, but because he is ‘‘without imagination’’ and thus unaccustomed to thinking about life and death, he is not afraid of the cold, which he estimates at fifty degrees below zero. He is on his way to join the rest of his companions at an old mining camp on a distant fork of Henderson...

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