Green’s Dictionary of Slang

America; also attrib.

1812		‘Hector Bull-us’ Diverting Hist. of John Bull and Brother Jonathan 90: The farms called collectively Yankey-land, it is said were originally taken up by a curious set of fellows.
1828		R.M. Bird City Looking Glass IV i: He played the very devil at college, for all ’twas in a Yankee land.
1833		M. Scott Tom Cringle’s Log (1862) 259: Off the coast of Yankeeland.
1842		Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 3 Sept. 2/7: No ’cheap bread’ will realise the object, until every quarter of wheat [...] imported from the sympathising shores of Yankland [is] thrown out of cultivation.
1843		Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 4 Feb. 3/3: The calculating spirit of Yankee-land never deserted him.
1845		J. Lindridge Sixteen-String Jack 392: Perhaps I shall gain enough from these addle-headed travellers to start myself and dear Elinor off to Yankee land again.
1856		G.G. Foster N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 175: They call ’em pails in Yankeeland.
1867		G.E. Clark Seven Years of a Sailor’s Life 98: How are you, Yankee land? [...] We’ll see you one of these fine days.
1873		W.H. Thomes Bushrangers 121: If you can’t muster better detectives, you should import a few from Yankee land.
1882		Hampshire Advertiser 21 Oct. 7/3: The new contingent [i.e of horses] includes the best three year olds [...] seen in Yankeeland this season.
1892		H. Lawson ‘Jack Dunn of Nevertire’ in Roderick (1967–9) I 222: My lamps were turned to Yankee Land, for I’d some people there.
1903		J. London People of the Abyss 110: On more occasions than one, as a Yankee tramp in Yankeeland, I have had to work for my breakfast.
1908		E.G. Murphy ‘Whitewash’ Jarrahland Jingles 31: Every coon in Yankeeland Appeared to have at her command, The Great Australian Thirst.
1912		Arthurs & David [perf. Marie Lloyd] The Piccadilly Trot 🎵 Well, I’ve got another one [i.e. a new dance] that beats the lot / And it doesn’t come from Yankeeland.
1914		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 4 Feb. 3/3: ‘Murder of a millionaire, sir, / As did come from Yankee Land’ / That’s the way the penny dreadfuls / Put the case.
1917		Liverpool Echo 26 July 4/6: Our good friend and correspondent has succeeded in brining to us, through Yankeeland [...] the following notes.
1927		C.A. Siringo Riata and Spurs 1: Two Years in Yankee-Land.
1934		J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 177: Everything that comes from Yankie-land is sure of a howling success.
1943		in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 435: Really, you’re not in Yankeeland now, and this sort of thing is not tolerated here.
1959		P. Larkin letter 13 Aug. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 306: I’m sure his view of Yankland is more sympathetic than mine: he wouldn’t notice the noise or the lack of draught beer.
1961		T. Taylor Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 106: [T]he daring explorers that come from Yankland.
1984		(con. WW2) T. Jones Heart of Oak [ebook] There I was to hear tales from Danskers, where the poufs lived in the trees, and Haggisland, and Aussie, and Yankee-land, which seemed to be very close to the end of the rainbow.
2000		J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 84: Oh, well, the Yanks want roots, because everyone in Yankland is lost.
2005		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 172: We look up to Yankeeland heroes and look down on our own.