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Challenge of the Yukon: The Case of the Hard-Hearted Hermit

Challenge of the Yukon · May 6, 1949 · 29 min · 4,810 words

The transcript of “The Case of the Hard-Hearted Hermit”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast May 6, 1949. 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 cover reaches the wild northwest, Quaker Puff Week and Quaker Puff Rise, a breakfast cereal shot from guns. 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.

On King One, you have to be... Gold. Gold discovered in a Yukon. A stampede to the Klondike in 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.

Say, do you know what's the world's fastest dog? What's the most popular recognized breed of dog? And you know that there's a kind of dog that weighs as little as one pound? Why, you can hold him right in your hand.

You know his name? Well sir, start collecting official challenge of the Yukon Dog Picture Cards today. You'll learn all about these dogs and many more. You'll have authentic color photographs of real dogs. And you'll have them on trading cards.

Picture cards with the same shiny glossy finish as Game Cards. These challenges of the Yukon dog cards are made specially for you. They're yours, thirty-five of them, at no extra cost. We'll tell you how to get them in just a few minutes."

When little Shari O'Rourke arrived in Whitehorse from the States, Sergeant Preston found himself confronted with a difficult problem. Shari's father was dead, and her mother, Il and Pennyless in the charity ward of a Seattle hospital, had sent the little girl north to the Yukon, to live with her grandfather, Old Amos Benbo.

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