That was the musical, “Paint Your Wagon”
The post was an excerpt from Robert Service’s “The Ballad of the Northern Lights.”
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAD9177.0001.001/1:5?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
He wrote a lot of entertaining ballads about the Alaskan gold rush.
Go north the rush is on
When it’s springtime in Alaska
That’s Johnny Horton, by the way. 😀