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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
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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.
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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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