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Challenge of the Yukon: Big Bill
Challenge of the Yukon · September 18, 1945 · 14 min · 2,257 words
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The Challenge of the Yukon! Unking! Unyoh-hutky! The Wonder Dog Kings, swift distance, strongest in Eskimo lead dogs, blazer 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, 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 ruled triumphant. People always looked twice at Big Bill Calhoun.
Not because of any sittoral elegance, those clothes were never pressed and seldom washed, but because he was such a mountain of a man. Big Bill could be a tower of fury, or a good The red-natured hawk shy to the point of embarrassment.
On an early spring morning as he strode down the main street of Whitehorse, he spotted three men who slid and frozen fast on the icy road in front of Annie Johnson's restaurant. The men were lashing their screening dog team mercilessly, and big bills voiced roared at them in sudden fury.
Hey you, Admiral Heavy, buzzed! Quit hitting them dogs that way! Oh my, sir, you've got a taste of this whip yourself! Get out of here, Packer! That's me. Listen, you little livid welch. Put down them whips or I'll bust all your skulls together.
Ah, Chef, I'm going about your business. Go on, mush! I'll show you who's business and who's you. You rock face, weasel. Give me that whip. Oh, no, you don't. Hit me with it for you.
We need bad food. How do you like that? Come on, let's get this guy in. All right, come on. Boom, fire! Come up behind me, will you? No, I'll get them whips. Callie, Bill, you're not dog three of them out.
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