Robert W. Service - Tales of the Yukon
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Alaska Map   Alaska Map     Table of Contents   The Shooting of Dan McGrew   The Cremation of Sam McGee   The Men That Don't Fit In   The Ballad of the Northern Lights   L'Envoi [1907]   To the Man of the High North   The Rhyme of the Restless Ones   The Younger Son   The Three Voices   The Call of the Wild   The Song of the Mouth-Organ   The Trail of Ninety-Eight   The Land God Forgot   Comfort   The Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben   The Low-Down White   The Man from eldorado   The Harpy   The Reckoning   The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin   The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike   The Pines   The Wood- Cutter   The Telegraph Operator   The Ballad of Pious Pete   The Lone Trail   The Song of the Wage-Slave   The Prospector   My Friends   The Black Sheep   Clancy of The Mounted Police   Music in the Bush   The Ballad of Hard-Luck Henry   The Lore of Little Voices   Premonition   The Spell of the Yukon   Men of the High North   The Rhyme of the Remittance Man   The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill   The Tramps   Grin   The Heart of the Sourdough   The Little Old Log Cabin   The Parson's Son   The Law of the Yukon   Lost   L'Envoi [1909]   Glossary of Northern Terms		Robert W. Service - 1874-1958 Robert W. Service was born on January 14, 1874 in Preston, a city about 25 miles north-northeast of Liverpool, and spent his boyhood in Glasgow. After graduating from school, he was apprenticed as a bank clerk. But like one of the young men in his ''Rhyme of the restless Ones,'' he soon grew impatient, sailed to Canada, and spent the next years working at odd jobs up and down the coast of the Pacific Northwest. Finally, in 1904, he accepted the conventional job of bank teller in the highly unconventional town of Whitehorse. Later, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transfered him to its branch in the formerly rip-roaring town of Dawson, where he inhabited a snug bungalow much like the one described in ''The Little Old Log Cabin.'' By then, the frenetic days of the Gold Rush were over, but Service took the yarns and stories he overheard and transformed them into the stuff of myth and legend. In 1907, Service published his first colllection of poetry, Songs of a Sourdough, in London. That same year, Philadelphia's Edward Stern and Company plublished it in the United States undr the title of The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses. This electric little volume included narratives of the New York waterfront and European painters, together with ''The Shooting of Dan McGrew'' and ''The Creamation of Sam McGee,'' which were to become the most-memorized poems in the language. In less than five years, Robert W. Service was famous as the poet who had chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the frozen north. Have a great trip through Alaska!	Alaska Products The Milepost is the most used of all travel guides and trip planners for Alaska and Canada. If you are planing on driving in Alaska or Canada on vacation then this guide is going to be the most complete you can buy. The retail cost of the Milepost in Alaska is $24.95.   Order now from Barnes and Noble.

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