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Challenge of the Yukon: Death and the Flickering Eye
Challenge of the Yukon · September 14, 1944 · 13 min · 1,921 words
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The challenge of the Yukon. A Wonder Dog King. This is the strongest of Eskimo leet dogs. Blaze of 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 him, Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog King met that challenge and justice ruled
triumphant. There were many courageous men and women who settled the Western United States, homesteaders, cattlemen, empire builders, but there was a lawless element too. Men who'd commit murder for a price or because killing was in their blood. Many Richards was one of these. He was just a youngster when with a handful of hard-bitten frontiersmen he stood off an Indian attack at a
Many Richards was mighty handy with a rifle or a six gun, and the episode at Adobe City was the beginning of a career during which neither of these weapons were out of his hands were long.
Few sheriffs in the West remained in office long. Number those who didn't died because they tried to stop the Larry Wells gang. In the Wolf's Sheds Saloon in Flintlock in 1892. Put that bottle down there, Barkey.
That's right. Hey, just heard something that might interest you. Yeah, what is it? Here, says he's coming down here, and he's going to give us ten minutes to get out of town. Yeah, have a drink.
Do you like it here, Manny? Yes. Oh, yeah, sure. Well, here comes that badge, Coder, now. You want me to take care of this? With that blink-in eye, you got? Yeah, the sheriff will think you're a wink-in' at him.
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