Challenge of the Yukon: The Idol

The challenge of the Yukon. The Wonder Dog King, swiftest and strongest of Eskimo lead dogs, blazes the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston, as he meets the challenge of the Yukon. Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of Northwest Mounted Police, who preserved law and order in the new Northwest country,

where the greed for wealth and power led to frequent violence and bloodshed. But in spite of the odds against them, Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog King met that challenge, and Justice Rule Triumphant. In 1833, Alaska and the Yukon territory were for the first time invaded by white men.

Before these men appeared, the Yukon had known countless generations of peace, inhabited only by Indians who were disinterested in the yellow flakes of glittering ore they found in clear streams and along river banks. To them, animal skins were far more valuable, and it was for the same skins the Count Igor Petrunovich made the journey to an unknown land.

But any furs the handful of white Russians secured were never to grace imperial robes in faraway St. Petersburg. It was late in the afternoon in the year 1834. A tribe of friends, exavages, gave voice to a cry of triumph, as they watched a fort the Russians had built go up in flames.

They thought they had killed all of the white men, one suddenly a tall dark-haired man with flashing eyes walked toward them. His hand was raised, and in it was a small figure carved in ivory, studded with rubies and diamonds.

Behind him walked an Indian. Analak, what are these peace-loving countrymen of your saying? Why do they bow down in front of me? And they know who I am? They know they killed the men I brought with me?