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  Klondike Gold Rush, Robert service
Robert Service was born in England in 1874, then spent his childhood in Glasgow, Scotland.
Robert Service remained in Europe during most of World War I. For a brief time he was a correspondent, giving that up to join the ambulance corps, which he left just prior to the American entry into the war.
Service was not a man who scoffed at danger, although his measure of the impossible was perhaps further outside the limits than for many other human beings.
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 Robert W. Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert W. Service has been honored with schools named for him in Anchorage, Alaska, in Dawson City in the Yukon and in Toronto, Ontario.
Robert Service lived for many years in a log cabin on 8th Avenue in Dawson City, Yukon.
Service eventually decided he could not return to Dawson, as it would not be as he remembered it.
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 Robert Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 - September 11, 1958) was a poet born into a Scottish family while they were living in Preston, England.
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The Robert Service Show Tom Byrne entertains with his spellbinding performances at the Robert Service cabin in Dawson City.
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 100 Canadian Poets - Poet's Name - Profile
Robert William Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, England on January 16, 1874 to Scottish parents.
The Trail of ’98 (1910) is a vivid novel of the conditions in the Alaskan Klondike.
Roberts, F. "A Bibliography of Robert William Service." Four Decades of Poetry 1890-1930 1 (1976): 76-85.
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 Vapour Trails - Venues and the Artists that play them and reviews of live music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Service sat down and wrote the barroom classic The Shooting of Dan McGrew followed by a shaggy dog story he heard one night when he was passing a bar.
Robert Service left White Horse for Dawson City by sleigh in 1908 where he continued to write and work for the bank until in 1909 he resigned for the final time.
In 1912 Robert Service left Canada to be a war correspondent in the Balkans for the Toronto Star.
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 Poetry - Robert W Service
For generations the Service family had lived in Kilwinning and when Robert senior moved north to work in Glasgow, he sent the future poet, and his brother John, to be raised by their grandparents in the Ayrshire town.
Robert began school in the town and clearly was born to be a poet because on the occasion of his 6
She is, herself, a fan of Robert Service’s work and has given the event her Royal blessing, showing once again how the Kilwinning Poet has reached into the very highest strata of society around the world.
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 Robert Service: two poems and a biography
Robert William Service arrived in Canada in 1896 after becoming disillusioned by he felt was a static and routine lifestyle in his native Scotland.
Service seized the opportunity and was almost immediately inspired by the bawdy celebration going on down the street at a popular saloon.
Robert Service never returned to the land he loved most in the world, however, his many poems and stories remain a written tribute to the Canadian Yukon and to Service’s life-long devotion to it.
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 First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Robert Service
Robert William Service (1874-1958) was a Canadian wartime correspondent, novelist and poet.
Service was born on 16 January 1874 in Preston, Lancashire the son of a Scottish bank clerk and English factory owner's daughter.
Service's post-war career saw him continue to publish novels and poetry, and he continued to travel widely.
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 Robert William Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert William Service was born on January 16, 1874 to a Scottish bank clerk and the daughter of an English factory owner.
Here Service found the western life he had sought, with its balance of a frontier sort of social life and the solitude of the northern woods.
The flood gates opened, Service wrote so many poems over the next few months that he decided to publish them and found a publisher who would pay a 10% royalty, and Songs of a Sourdough (reissued as The Spell of the Yukon) was published to some success.
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 Robert’s Auto Service - Home of the 2 year / 24,000 mile warranty!
The objective of Robert's Auto Service is to give the best automotive repair possible keeping people safe and secure on the road with good, dependable transportation.
Robert's Auto Service is an Approved Auto Repair facility of the AAA network.
Robert's Auto Service offers an unprecedented 2 year/24,000 mile warranty on all repairs with the exception of wear items.
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 Robert W. Service, poet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Service is a famous poet who wrote such legendary pieces as "The Cremation of Sam McGee", "The Spell of the Yukon" and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew".
Robert emigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1894 and spent eight years in Dawson City in the Yukon.
Robert Service was also a newspaper correspondent for the Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and an ambulance driver and correspondent during World War 1.
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 Harvard University Press/Lenin/Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and St. Antony's College at Oxford University.
At the same time, Service presents him as a calculating yet compulsive politician obsessed to the point of mania with his vision of history and the future...One should read Service's excellent book not so much to ponder the problems of the past but of the present and future.
Indeed, Service is consciously writing against the predominant Lenin canon in both East and West...[He] seeks to reconstruct Lenin's motives historically, decision by decision, as the settings of his action changed.
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 Encyclopedia: Robert W. Service
AFS volunteers and ambulance in World War I. The American Field Service (AFS) was established in 1915 by A. Piatt Andrew, a political economics professor at Harvard University and a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject.
Bob Smarts Dream is a poem written by Robert W. Service while he lived in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
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 Robert Service - A Biography
Robert took to the formal study of English Language and Literature so well that after Christmas time examinations he stood 4th in a class of 200, most of whom he saw as "poor boobs to be pitied".
Robert left Glasgow with a copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Amateur Emigrant", a letter of reference from the bank, his Bill Cody outfit and a suitcase full of clothes and personal effects to sail steerage to Montreal.
Robert then moved to a more remote place to live and work with a rugged old time loner he calls Hank in "Ploughman of the Moon", his autobiography.
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 Service, Robert William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Celebrations of the rough ways of Klondike life continued in Ballads of a Cheechako (1909) and in the novel The Trail of ‘98 (1910).
Service became a foreign correspondent in 1912 and drove an ambulance during World War I, an experience that gave him material for Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916).
He spent the rest of his life, except during World War II, in France and Monte Carlo.
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 Robert Service and Jack London, writers from the gold rush
Although Robert Service came late to the rush, he was still able to capture the longing, dread and thrill of those who made the journey.
Service did not settle in any one spot for too long, but he continued to write wherever he moved.
Unlike Robert Service, who relied on his imagination for his vivid portrait of the great gold rush, London lived and worked in the midst of the excitement.
www.postalmuseum.si.edu /gold/literature.html   (869 words)

  
 Service, Robert William on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NEW YORK -- Dallasite Robert Steinhagen prays during the invocation in the opening moments of the 3rd session of the Convention at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, on Tuesday, August 31, 2004.
Robert Jackson, right, plays the role of Rev. William Moses as he talks with others in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
Architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in Manayunk, Pennsylvania.
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 The Story of Robert Service, Bard of the Yukon
Robert Service, the Yukon's most famous poet, would have described these men as being in harmony with their Fate - with Destiny.
Robert W. Service was born on January 16, 1874, in Lancashire, England.
Robert was sent to live with his grandfather and three old maid aunts.
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 RobertWService.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
JP 7-17-02 My fiancé's mother was a relative of Robert Service and we are currently searching for a poem of his to have her read at our wedding.
Service's poetry lives on and on, to be enjoyed by many more than he could have imagined.
MW 5-13-02 I was introduced to the joys of Service's poetry by Jean Shepard on his radio show in the early 70's, and I used to read the Cremation Of Sam McGee in high school poetry reading competitions.
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 Robert William Service’s Life Story
When Robert was very young he moved in with his grandfather, tired of having numerous siblings, and wrote his first ever-recorded poem at the young age of six called “God bless the cakes and bless the jam.”
Robert Service, however, found his way around the reading rules, slipping a glance at a book whenever the manager wasn’t looking.
Robert was then introduced to dairy farming and there he stayed for four years.
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 Robert W. Service, Just Another Canadian
Robert Service was and always will be a Scot, one with a good education and a desire to see the world.
The most important thing about Robert W. Service is that he became a Canadian and was able to tell about his adopted land so that other Canadians could see his world through his eyes.
In this way Service is a good model for us to follow when you hear his voice there is no doubt that you are listening to a Scott but the passion he has for the Yukon and the North makes him a white knuckled Canadian.
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 The Robert W. Service Resource Page - ExploreNorth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Here is a poem from Service's Whitehorse days that has only been published in one 1906 newspaper article.
The complete text of all 54 poems about World War I, when Robert was serving with the Ambulance Corps in France.
From the United Kingdon comes a CD based on Robert Service's poetry - several audio clips are posted.
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 Open Directory - Society: History: By Time Period: Twentieth Century: Wars and Conflicts: World War I: Personalities: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Robert Wilson - The diary of Captain John Wilson of the Royal Flying Corps for 1917, covering his service until his death on the Western Front.
Robert Hamilton - The diary of Lieutenant Robert Peyton Hamilton of the County of London Regiment for 1915, covering his service on the Western Front.
Robert Lindsay Mackay - The diary of Robert Mackay, of the 11th Batallion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, for 1916 to 1918.
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 National Park Service: Biography (Robert Sterling Yard)
Robert Sterling Yard was born in 1861 in Haverstraw, New York.
From 1915 to 1919, Yard served in the Department of the Interior as national parks publicity chief and later as chief, Educational Division, of the new National Park Service.
On a cold January day in 1930, Robert Sterling Yard had stood with National Park Service Director Horace Albright at the grave of the recently deceased Stephen Mather.
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 Center for Excellence in Service - Robert H. Smith School of Business - University of Maryland, College Park
The journal is sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Service, in conjunction with Sage Publications and is edited by A. Parasuraman, (University of Miami).
JSR strives to be the leading outlet for the most advanced research in service marketing, e-Service, service operations, service human resources and organizational design, service information systems, customer satisfaction and service quality, and the economics of service.
The Journal of Service Research is an "academic" journal in terms of rigor, but a "managerial" journal in that its articles are readable and have practical content.
www.rhsmith.umd.edu /ces/journalserviceresearch.html   (395 words)

  
 Robert Service Birthday Commemoration
Service planned printing a small volume for friends and family.
On January 21, 1995, the first annual Robert Service Birthday Commemoration celebration was held at the Westmark Hotel in Whitehorse.
Robert Service, the most widely read poet of this century, was born on Jaunary 16, 1874.
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 Fly Fishing Internet: Canada: Yukon Territory Robert Service
Robert Service is just one of the renowned authors to have helped glamorize the Yukon by creating legends of the Klondike through his poetry.
Service was born in England in 1874, but spent his childhood in Scotland.
Since reception to his first two works was favorable, Service decided to quit his job with the bank and live on the money his writings would hopefully provide.
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 Poems of Robert Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Service has long been my favorite of all poets, I first came across his poem "The Spell of the Yukon" when I was 12 years old, it was a time in my life when I needed hope, and somehow this poem provided that for me.
Normally it is Service's poems that I recite.
This guy seems to be every bit as much the fan of Service's poetry as I am.
www.mochinet.com /poets/yukon.html   (280 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Robert William Service (English And French Canadian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Robert William Service, English And French Canadian Literature, Biographies
Robert William Service 1874–1958, Canadian poet and novelist, b.
He went to Canada in 1897 and held odd jobs in British Columbia and at White Horse in the Yukon.
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