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Challenge of the Yukon: The Trail

Challenge of the Yukon · October 30, 1945 · 14 min · 2,501 words

The transcript of “The Trail”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast October 30, 1945. 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 Ushki! The Wonder Dog King, swift distance, strongest of Eskimo lead dogs, blazes the trail through storm and snow for sight and 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, with a 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.

Corporal Cleary of the Northwest Mounted Police was nearing the Arctic Circle. The cold was bitter, but the knowledge that he was close on the heels of Pierce Rule, a murderer whom he had pursued from British Columbia, spurred him on. He plotted to the snow after his dog team following a trail that left past a group of rocks suddenly a shot rang out

Corporal Cleary staggered then fell face downward right through the head dead never knew what hit him Treileed and passed the rocks put him off guard like a photo wood Pierce I don't like it he's a mountain well it was either him or else wasn't it anyway I'm glad I did it and a score to

settle with the mounds here you hated them ever since they threw you up and you're straining to be one yeah I wasn't good enough for him was noble enough well I didn't want to belong to him anyway too pure for my taste no drinking on duty no money accepted for favors from people willing to pay for him and they taught me

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