Robert Service's poems echo through the mountains of North America. His simple verse is easy to read, beckoning you to plow through these adventure stories. Among them are: "The Rhyme of the Restless Ones" "The Black Sheep" "Carry On!" "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" "The Cremation of Sam McGee" "The Trapper's Christmas Eve" "The Lone Trail" During the First World War, Robert Service was an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in France and a war correspondent. He was born in the United Kingdom in 1874, and went on to travel throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe. He died in 1958. You may also be interested in his Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, available in eBook format.
Author
This author is the the British-Canadian writer of Yukon poetry. For the British historian of modern Russia, see Robert Service. Robert William Service was born into a Scottish family while they were living in Preston, England. He was schooled in Scotland, attending Hillhead High School in Glasgow. He moved to Canada at the age of 21 when he gave up his job working in a Glasgow bank, and traveled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia with his Buffalo Bill outfit and dreams of becoming a cowboy. He drifted around western North America, taking and quitting a series of jobs. Hired by the Canadian Bank of Commerce, he worked in a number of its branches before being posted to the branch in Whitehorse (not Dawson) in the Yukon Territory in 1904, six years after the Klondike Gold Rush. Inspired by the vast beauty of the Yukon wilderness, Service began writing poetry about the things he saw. Conversations with locals led him to write about things he hadn't seen, many of which hadn't actually happened, as well. He did not set foot in Dawson City until 1908, arriving in the Klondike ten years after the Gold Rush, but his renown as a writer was already established. For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\_W.\_Service.
