Robert W. Service 18741958 was a Canadian poet best known for his poemsabout the Canadian North. Service came to Canada when he was 21 hoping tobecome a cowboy.... » 

Robert W. Service 18741958 was a Canadian poet best known for his poemsabout the Canadian North. Service came to Canada when he was 21 hoping tobecome a cowboy. Instead he ended up working in a bank in the Yukon Territory.The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee made him famous.During World War 1 he was an ambulance driver and war correspondent. Rhymes ofa Rolling Stone is a collection of poetry including the poems The TrappersChristmas Eve The Soldier of Fortune The Gramaphone at FondDuLac and Deathin the Arctic. «