The Cremation of Sam McGee
Poem by Robert W. ServiceWikipedia
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Oct 17, 2026
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The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W.
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Service.
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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.
Mama FoxfireHOST
She would like to know what is your favorite poem?
Gaylen WilsonGUEST
The Cremation of Sam McGee.
Mama FoxfireHOST
Okay.
Gaylen WilsonGUEST
You gonna look it up?
Mama FoxfireHOST
Is it pretty short? Oh, it's pretty long.
Mama FoxfireHOST
I'll read, like, the first, I'll read, like, the first little bit of it.
Mama FoxfireHOST
So this is The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service.
Mama FoxfireHOST
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun by men who moil for gold.
Merrill WhiteGUEST
You have Jack London, you know, wrote Call of the Wild, a lot of that stuff up here.
Merrill WhiteGUEST
You have Robert Service that wrote all of his different poetry or things like The Cremation of Sam McGee, you know, and all that.
Merrill WhiteGUEST
So you've had writers coming up here to Alaska and these kind of things.
Merrill WhiteGUEST
And you had early on in Alaska, there was a good core of the original sourdoughs, the prospectors, the miners.