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Charlotte Service-Longépé Robert W. Service Best Quotes & Inspiring Rhymes, Infine Arts Editions, 2020, ISBN 978-2-9555437-3-3 Charlotte Service-Longépé The Poisoned Paradise. A Romance of Monte-Carlo Annales Monégasques, n°43, Archives du Palais Princier de Monaco, Monaco, 2019, p. 167-217.
"The Cremation of Sam McGee" is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. (A "sourdough", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) [1] It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge [2] (spelled "Lebarge" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.
Songs of a Sourdough is a book of poetry published in 1907 by Robert W. Service. In the United States, the book was published under the title The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses . The book is well known for its verse about the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon a decade earlier, particularly the long, humorous ballads, " The Shooting of Dan ...
Scottish-Canadian poet Robert W. Service also published a ballad with this name in Twenty Bath-Tub Ballads, 1939, claiming that he had written the song in 1911; [2] however, Service's ballad is significantly different from the traditional lyrics. [3] There are many other versions that exist. [1]
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The tale takes place in a Yukon saloon during the Yukon Gold Rush of the late 1890s. It tells of three characters: Dan McGrew, a rough-neck prospector; McGrew's sweetheart Lou, a formidable pioneer woman; and a mysterious, weather-worn stranger who wanders into the saloon where the former are among a crowd of drinkers.
"Bob Smart's Dream" is a poem written by Robert W. Service while he lived in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. He presented it on March 19, 1906, at a banquet held to honour J.P. Rogers, the superintendent of the White Pass and Yukon Route. The real-life Bob Smart had been the government assayer at Whitehorse since 1903.
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