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Poetry in the Malmute Saloon

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Canadian poet Robert Service led a wild, adventurous life.  Frontier cowboy and banker,  pursued during WWII by the Nazis and Russians, he wrote poems of a different, playful nature about his experiences and the people he encountered. Find out why “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” and his WWI and Yukon ballads are now classics.