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Challenge of the Yukon: Ned's Wife

Challenge of the Yukon · April 11, 1946 · 14 min · 2,380 words

The transcript of “Ned's Wife”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast April 11, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Challenge of the Yukon free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The challenge of the Yukon. On King! On your Huskies! On your Huskies! Wonder Dog King, swiftness and strong as to Veskimoli Dogs, blazes the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston, as he meets the challenge of the Yukon.

On your Huskies! Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of Northwest Monty 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 ruled triumphant. The arrival of a male was always an exciting event in Dawson City during the Gold Rush.

People clamored eagerly for their letters. But on this particular day toward the end of winter, the prospectors stopped reading their own letters when they heard a loud whoop from Old Ned Gordon in the crowded post-op.

You mean the one who advertised for a husband in the paper? Yes sir, I answered it, sent my picture, told her I'm a gold strike and she decided she'd have it. Well I hope you moved some of that moss off your face before you had the picture to her.

I sure did, had a bath, I wished it trimmed my hair cut. Now I gotta go through it again when I go meet her. I think it was a... It sure is. Hey, look, here's a picture of me.

Oh my. You're a fine big woman, good cook, fine house to you. You're all going to be jealous when I have you over to our first home cook meal. I like my own cooking. No, what's in it?

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