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Challenge of the Yukon: No Epitaph for Tombstone
Challenge of the Yukon · January 20, 1950 · 29 min · 5,110 words
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The transcript of “No Epitaph for Tombstone”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast January 20, 1950. 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 Week, and Quaker Puff Ride, the breakfast cereal shot from guns, present the challenge of the U-Cub. It's Yukon King, swift as the strongest lead dog of the North West, placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest's Mounted Police,
In his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers and king of the west. Gold, gold discovered in 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 beat the challenge
Of the Yukon! Why be bored with breakfast fellas and girls? Give yourself a treat. Pour out a heaping bowl full of taste- tempting Quaker Pop wheat or Quaker Pop rice. Cover it with milk or cream and fruit and take a big spoonful.
Ah, what tender Christmas! What delicious nut-like flavor! Yes, there's a breakfast treat that brings you to the table on the double. trouble. Try it tomorrow morning. For tantalizing taste, you just can't beat delicious, nourishing, Quaker-pop'd rise, and Quaker-pop'd wheat.
Throughout the western United States, Maggie McGuire was known to mining communities only by the name of Nevada. As a prospector, she had followed the gold strikes from New Mexico to the Dakotas. But age caught up with her, and when gold was discovered in the Yukon, she joined in the great rush but not as a prospector.
Instead she opened a little trading post on the Elkhorn Trail, a few miles from the village of Lodestone. She was arranging her stock on the shelves a few weeks after opening the store when a customer entered.
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