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Subject: Re: Dan McGrew Digest V00 #97
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:28:40 EDT


In a message dated 04/03/2000 11:03:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

> Who was Dan McGrew? Maybe a poet? dd he live on the Isle off
> Wight?
> Doris
Doris,
Do not know what generated your interest in Dan McGrew but there was a poem
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew" by Robert Service. He was a poet of from
Ireland who lived in and wrote about Alaska. The poem is often read at
reading poetry reading sessions. It is sometimes known as "Dangerous Dan
McGrew." Don Sheppard, Euclid, Ohio. Researching HARVEY and BRIGHT in the
1800s and 1900s.


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