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A Best Made Reading: The Cremation of Sam McGee by Johnny Cash

And a view of Lake Labarge circa 1900 with a man and his horse-drawn sled and dog team (photograph by H.C. Barley). Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee in 1907 which takes place “on the marge of Lake Labarge”. Harrie C. Barley was hired in 1898 by the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway to document the construction and early operations of their narrow gauge railway linking Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon. Source: Dept. of Tourism and Culture, Government of Yukon.

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    No cold winter’s night is complete without...(esp when narrated by Johnny Cash)
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