![]() Another interpretation has Sam McGee still alive and enjoying the warmth of the furnace fire in the style of a "Tall Tale." Sam has conned the narrator into trekking him to a warm location through the ruse of promising to have him cremated. Much to the narrator's surprise, he later discovers Sam's ghost in the makeshift crematorium, enjoying the warmth. After McGee dies the following day, the narrator winds up hauling the body clear to the "marge of Lake Lebarge" before he finds a way to perform the promised cremation aboard a derelict steamer called the Alice May. The narrator knows that "A pal's last need is a thing to heed", and swears he will not fail to cremate him. ![]() The night prior to his death the title character, who is from the fictional town of Plumtree, Tennessee, asks the narrator "to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains". (A "sourdough", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge (spelled "Lebarge" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. ![]() " The Cremation of Sam McGee" is among the most famous of Robert W. ![]()
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