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Challenge of the Yukon: Ambush Near Selkirk

Challenge of the Yukon · September 26, 1949 · 29 min · 5,279 words

The transcript of “Ambush Near Selkirk”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast September 26, 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 Rice, the breakfast cereal shot from guns, present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftness and strongest leet dog of the northwest, placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police, in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers.

On king on your headpiece! 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 Rise, bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog Yukon King as they meet the challenge of the Yukon.

Here those jet planes, now you see them, now you don't. Yes, when you pour out a bowl full of swell tasting Quaker Pops wheat or Quaker Pops rice for breakfast and milk or cream and your favorite fruit, now you see them, now you don't.

So crisp, so tender, so tempting they disappear in a flesh. Mmm, and oh, you just can't beat these giant king-sized kernels of premium wheat-arice shot from guns. They're the one and only Quaker Pops Wheat and Quaker Pops Rice that come in the big red and blue package with the smiling Quaker Man on the front.

Gary Evans was a trapper who had settled a short distance from Selkert. He had brought his wife Lucy from Seattle during the first gold rush, hoping to make a strike, but his claim gave out, and he turned to trapping as a means of making a living during that first winter. He soon found that furs were secondary only to goal in value and decided

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