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Verses chronicling the Klondike gold rush and immortalizing the colorful characters of the Yukon Territory, chosen from the authors earlier collections The spell of the Yukon and Ballads of a Cheechako.
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Frontier and pioneer life--Yukon Territory--Poetry, Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries--Poetry, Yukon Territory--Poetry, Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries--Poetry, Canadian poetry.
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1983
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PR9199.3.S45A6 1983eb
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811/.52
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Frontier and pioneer life--Yukon Territory--Poetry, Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries--Poetry, Yukon Territory--Poetry, Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries--Poetry, Canadian poetry.
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Best Tales of the Yukon
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Best Tales of the Yukon
Robert W. Service
RUNNING PRESS PHILADELPHIA LONDON
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Copyright 1983 by Running Press. All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. Printed in the United States of America.
This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher.
37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 Digit on the right indicates the number of this printing.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 18741958. Best tales of the Yukon. Summary: Verses chronicling the Klondike gold rush and immortalizing the colorful characters of the Yukon Territory, chosen from the author's earlier collections "The Spell of the Yukon" and "Ballads of a Cheechako." 1. Yukon TerritoryPoetry. 2. Klondike gold fieldsPoetry. [1. Yukon TerritoryPoetry. 2. Klondike gold fieldsPoetry. 3. Canadian poetry] 1. Title. PR9199.3S45A6 1983 811'.52 833128
ISBN 0894712012 (paperback) ISBN 0894712020 (library binding)
Frontispiece: The Bettmann Archive, Inc. Back cover photograph: Culver Pictures Illustrations by Suzanne Clee Typography: Weiss by rci, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Printed by Port City Press, Baltimore, Maryland
This book may be ordered by mail from the publisher. Please add $2.50 for postage. But try your bookstore first! Running Press 125 South Twenty-second Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
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Table of Contents
Publisher's Preface
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L'Envoi [1907]
You who have lived in the land...
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To the Man of the High North
My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming...
13
The Men That Don't Fit in
There's a race of men that don't fit in...
14
The Rhyme of the Restless Ones
We couldn't sit and study for the law...
16
The Younger Son
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land...
18
The Three Voices
The waves have a story to tell me...
21
The Call of the Wild
Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on .. ?
23
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone...
25
The Trail of 'Ninety-Eight
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools...
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The Land God Forgot
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn...
35
The Ballad of the Northern Lights
One of the Down and Outthat's me. Stare at me well, aye, stare!
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Comfort
Say! You've struck a heap of trouble...
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The Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben
He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim.
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The Low-Down White
This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down...
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The Man from Eldorado
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town...
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The Reckoning
It's fine to have a blow-out in a fancy restaurant...
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