The Spell of the Yukon and Other Poems

Assigned by his employers at the Canadian Bank of Commerce to the Yukon Territory in 1904, Robert Service became renowned as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush. Service's memorable tales in verse relate the adventures of One-Eyed Mike, Blasphemous Bill, Dangerous Dan McGrew, and other colorful characters.

Known as the "Canadian Kipling," Robert Service (1877-1958) is also frequently compared to Jack London because of their shared admiration for the Yukon wilderness. Service's poetry — including "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" — achieved immediate and lasting worldwide fame.

The Land God Forgot The Spell of the Yukon The Heart of the Sourdough The Three Voices The Law of the Yukon The Parson's Son The Call of the Wild The Lone Trail The Pines The Lure of Little Voices The Song of the Wage-Slave Grin The Shooting of Dan McGrew The Cremation of Sam McGee My Madonna Unforgotten The Reckoning Quatrains The Men That Don't Fit In Music in the Bush The Rhyme of the Remittance Man The Low-Down White The Little Old Log Cabin The Younger Son The March of the Dead "Fighting Mac" The Woman and the Angel The Rhyme of the Restless Ones New Year's Eve Comfort The Harpy Premonition The Tramps L'Envoi