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Challenge of the Yukon: White Man's Law

Challenge of the Yukon · December 13, 1947 · 28 min · 4,298 words

The transcript of “White Man's Law”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast December 13, 1947. 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. It's King, swiftest and strongest lead dog of the North country, blazing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Modern Police in his relentless pursuit of law breakers. Unkain! Unkain!

Gold, gold, discovered in the Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the greedy race for edges. Now back to the days of the Gold Rush, when Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog king battled through storm and snow to preserve law and order as they met the challenge of the Yukon.

Far north of the Arctic Circle near Mackenzie Bay, a band of Eskimos were hunting seal. The winter had come suddenly that year, and the freezing wind had covered the vast expanse of water with thick ice.

As they approached the bay, Uluk, the leader suddenly stopped and pointed ahead, talking in his native tongue to Wiebou his brother. What is that that moves slowly on the white snow? If not a seal or a bear, a sealer are two together.

They walk first on their hind legs, then crawl on all fours. They are men like us. They fall down and then drag themselves to their feet. Come, we must help them. Huh? They're white men one is still as it did help us We've been without any food for days We're Help me with it we boo. Yes, follow the other one. Is he alive? Yes

We must get dogs and sled we can take them back to village and give them food and children Weeks passed and the two white men lay in an igloo too weak to help themselves themselves. The Eskimos were kindly and fed them what food they had, and so the men could sit up and talk to each other. They were alone in the small snow-house when Hank Peterson,

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