Written while he worked as a bank clerk in the Yukon, Service’s first book of verse gives voice to the gold-rush North: the stern law of the Yukon, the spell of the wild, the lone trail, the shooting of Dan McGrew and the promise that ends in the cremation of Sam McGee on the marge of Lake Lebarge.
The rollicking ballads that made Service the bard of the Klondike, made for reading aloud. Download the free EPUB.