Boomfish

Boomfish t1_iyacngc wrote

Reply to TIL Robert W. Service sent his poems to his father to be printed and given as gifts to friends. Service received back an offer of royalties for publication, the printers had loved the poems, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses was an immediate success and Service quit his bank job the next year. by jamescookenotthatone

As a rural small town kid in the 70's I read voraciously. Anything I could get my hands on. One of the books that found its way to my house was a high school literature text, probably late 60's. In it was Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee". That textbook was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post. Many great hours with my nose in that book, I wish I could remember the title.

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