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Challenge of the Yukon: The Wilderness Uprising

Challenge of the Yukon · November 8, 1948 · 29 min · 5,274 words

The transcript of “The Wilderness Uprising”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast November 8, 1948. 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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Now as gunshots echo across the wind, Swept snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker Puff Week, and Quaker Puff Rice, the breakfast cereal shot from gun, present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftness and strongest lead dog of the Northwest, placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest-mounted police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers.

And King, one! Oh Husky! Gold, gold, discovered in Yukon. A stampede to the Klondike and the Wild Race for riches. Back to the days of the Gold Rush. With Quaker Puff Wheat and Quaker Puff Rice, bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog Yukon King as they meet the challenge of the Yukon.

Man, oh man, those kids are in a hurry. And no wonder, they know Mom serving a breakfast of swell-tasting Quaker Puffed Wheat or Quaker Puffed Rice. These ready to serve grains of premium wheat or rice are actually exploded up to eight times normal size to make them crisp and tender. Yes, wheat or rice shot from guns rarely hits a spot. Don't miss out

tomorrow morning. Enjoy this breakfast treat. Quaker Puffed Rice or Quaker Puffed Wheat. It was a dark night in mid-winter. The sky was completely clouded over, and the hills loomed menacingly, around the valley. Not a light showed in any of the buildings that made up the wilderness trading-post, but only the factor, Lafe Wilson and his son Ted, were asleep.

The Indians and their cabins were watching the hills. Two hours before dawn they saw a tongue of flame shoot up toward the sky at the top of the highest ridge. Then suddenly the flame was gone, the night was blacker than ever. The Indians left their cabins, all All their belongings packed on their backs and started marching toward the western ridge.

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