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Challenge of the Yukon: Bear Trap

Challenge of the Yukon · November 2, 1949 · 29 min · 5,169 words

The transcript of “Bear Trap”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast November 2, 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-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker-pop wheat, and Quaker-pop rice, The breakfast cereal shot from gun, Present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftest and strongest lead dog of the northwest, Blating the trail for Sergeant Preston of the northwest-mounted police, In his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers.

Cawbreakers and king the ing cares about this game! Gold Gold is covered in a Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the Wild Race for riches, back to the days of the gold rush, with Quaker Poth Wheat and Quaker Poth Rice bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog Yukon King as they beat the challenge

of the Yukon. It's going, going, it's almost gone. John, so hurry! This is one of the last times we can tell you how to get five, actually five, pocket-sized Bugs Buddy comic books. All new, all different, all yours for only fifteen cents, and one box top from delicious Quaker Puffed Wheat or Quaker Puffed Rice.

Look, Doc, you better hurry! Keep listening. Here are all the details later. Bean Baxter and his wife, Ethel, were running a small restaurant in Toronto when the Klondike Gold Rush started, and to them it looked like a good opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fortune by opening a restaurant in the Yukon. They sold out their possessions

for enough to pay their passage and have a small residue of cold cash. When they arrived in Dawson a month later they found that other people with more cash than theirs had the same idea. They also found that their savings were far from sufficient to open even a small cafe.

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