Songs of a Sourdough: Illustrated and Annotated

The Bard of the Yukon ~ Banker, Hobo, and Klondike Poet

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Robert William Service was born in Lancashire, Engand in 1874. His mother was an heiress and his father a bank cashier. He was the eldest of 10 children.

When Service was 4 years old, he was sent to his grandfather and his 3 aunts in Scotland to live. He wrote his first poem two years later.

He was, it seemed, destined t...