Verses chronicling the Klondike gold rush and immortalizing the colorful characters of the Yukon Territory, originally published in the author's earlier collections "The spell of the Yukon" and "Ballads of a Cheechako".

Collection of works by the vagabond poet.

"When Robert W. Service was transferred to the Whitehorse Branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in the Yukon Territory in 1904, six years after the Klondike Gold Rush, his career as a world-famous poet would soon begin. Inspired by the beauty of the Yukon wilderness, Service would write some of the most expressive poetry of the age depicting the trials and tribulations of the Yukon gold mining life."--Amazon.