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Robert W. Service (1874 – 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". A bank clerk by trade, his bank sent him to the Yukon, where he was inspired by tales of the Klondike Gold Rush, and wrote two poems, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", which  enjoyed immediate popularity. He quickly wrote more poems on the same theme, followed by his next popular collection, "Ballads of a Cheechako". His successes allowed him to travel widely and live a leisurely life, basing himself in Paris and the French Riviera. More

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