This Day in Alaska History-September 11th, 1958
On September 11th, 1958, at the age of eighty-four, “The Bard of the Yukon,” Robert W. Service, famed poet and writer, died in Lancieux, Côtes-d’Armor, France. Service was renowned as the poetic teller of tales, “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” and the “Cremation of Sam McGee,” and many others. Many mistakenly believed that Service was […]