Best of Robert Service

In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to its branch in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Less than five years later, Service was famous as the poet who had chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the frozen north. But after his first two collections of poetry were published, Service turned to other subject matter. Never again did he write of the hard-bitten prospectors and sourdoughs in "The Land God Forgot." This volume collects the vivid, often-recited verses from The Spell of the Yukon and Ballads of a Cheechako in a new sequence that forms a full-length saga of the land of the northern lights and the "men who moil for gold." Here, for delightful reading and rereading, are all the brawling, colorful characters that Robert Service immortalized, including One-Eyed Mike, Dangerous Dan McGrew, Pious Pete, Sam McGee from Tennessee, Gum-Boot Ben, Blasphemous Bill -- and, of course, the lady known as Lou. When the gold rush began in 1896, many photographers went north. Because of them, we have a remarkably accurate log of the great rush to the Klondike. Most everyone taking photographs in the Klondike in those days lived in Dawson. However, one team of photographers, Clarke and Clarence Kinsey, lived near their gold claim along the creeks at Grand Forks.Kinsey, Clarke is the author of 'Best of Robert Service' with ISBN 9780762416318 and ISBN 0762416319.