~Robert Service - Spell of the Yukon~ Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/9/2015
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Robert Service sailed from Lancashire, England to western Canada in 1894 to become a cowboy in the Yukon Wilderness. He worked on a ranch and as a bank teller in Vancouver Island six years after the Gold Rush, gleaning material that would inform his poetry for years to come and earn him his reputation as “Bard of the Yukon.” Service traveled widely throughout his life—to Hollywood, Cuba, Alberta, Paris, Louisiana, and elsewhere—and his travels continued to fuel his writing.

A prolific writer and poet, Service published numerous collections of poetry during his lifetime, including "Songs of a Sourdough" or "Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses" (1907), which went into ten printings its first year, "Ballad of a Cheechako" (1909) and "Ballads of a Bohemian" (1921), as well as two autobiographies and six novels. Several of his novels were made into films, and he also appeared as an actor in "The Spoilers", a 1942 film with Marlene Dietrich.

Our favorite is "The Cremation of Sam McGee". He's a stanza from the poem:

There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold

The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold

The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see

Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee.

Service’s two-room cabin in the Yukon, which he lived in from November 1909 until June 1912 while writing his Gold Rush novel The Trail of Ninety-Eight (1911) and his poetry collection Rhymes of a Rolling Stone (1913), is maintained as a historic site for visitors.

We were fortunate to visit his historical cabin on our travels through Dawson City, Yukon. BYOP.

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