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Challenge of the Yukon: The Fan-Tan Gold Robbery

Challenge of the Yukon · September 12, 1949 · 29 min · 5,146 words

The transcript of “The Fan-Tan Gold Robbery”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast September 12, 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 windswept, Snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker puff-wheat, and Quaker puff-rise, The breakfast cereal shot from gun. Yeah! Yeah! Present the challenge of the Yukon. Yeah! If Yukon King swiftest and strongest lead dog of the northwest, Blading the trail for Sergeant Preston of the northwest-mounted police In his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers.

One came! One! One! One! Gold! Gold discovered in the 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.

Bellas and girls, on your mark, get set. We're off! Yes, off to another new series of exciting adventures with Sergeant Preston and King. Brought to you at the same time every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, by Quaker Pup Rice and Quaker Pup Wheat.

A keen tasting ready to serve breakfast cereals shot from guns. So get set for the swellest tasting breakfast ever. Ask mom for rice or wheat shot from guns. Remember, it comes only in those famous big red and blue packages with the smiling Quaker Man on the front.

You'll say, here's the breakfast we like to eat, Quaker Puff Rice and Quaker Puff Wheat. Dave Owen had staked a small claim on Sywash Creek, But the claim had soon petered out, and Dave was forced to go to work as a hired hand at the fan-tan mine near Muckluck City.

Muckluck City was a tough mining camp, and as the weeks went by, Dave's wife Nora found life more and more intolerable in such surroundings. One evening as she cleared away the supper-dishes, Nora spoke to their ten-year-old son, Jackie.

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