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Challenge of the Yukon: The Haunted Mine

Challenge of the Yukon · February 13, 1950 · 29 min · 5,211 words

The transcript of “The Haunted Mine”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast February 13, 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 wind, swept, snow-covered reaches of the Wild Northwest, Baker Puff Wheat, and Baker Puff Rise, the breakfast cereal shot from Ghand, 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.

Unking! Unking! 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 meet the challenge of the Yukon.

It's the hottest thing in town. Yes, now get cut out models to build Sergeant Preston's famous Yukon trail in your home. The hottest offer ever made by Quaker Pop Wheat and Quaker Pop Rise. Thus well-tasting serial shot from gun!

Actually, 59 Yukon Trail models at no extra cost! Listen for details in a few minutes! Zona Howard had inherited a half-interest in a mine near Selkirk. The mine, which was known as the Dead Dutchman, was surrounded by an aura of mystery and evil legend.

At first, Zona had laughed at the mine's weird reputation, but later when troubles began piling up, It wasn't so easy to keep on scoffing. One morning she was seated in the company tent near the mouth of the mine shaft.

John Slocum, the hard-bitten mine foreman, was saying, I tell you, Miss Howard, I'd never put much stock in ghosts and curses or that sort of thing. But now I'm lying so sure. For heaven's sake, Slocum, don't you start talking that way too?

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