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Challenge of the Yukon: The Man Who Fled
Challenge of the Yukon · March 17, 1950 · 29 min · 5,106 words
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Now as gunshot echo across the windswept, Snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker Puff Wheat, and Quaker Puff Rice, The breakfast cereal shot from gun, 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, un-whisking! 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.
Exploded up to eight times normal size. Yes, that's what happens to Quaker Pop Wheat and Quaker Pop Rice, because they're shot from guns. That's why these choice, flavor-rich, premium grains are so crisp and tender.
They're shot through and through with swell, not like flavor, too. Just pour out a bowl full and add some fruit and milk or cream. and yummy, you're back for more, for a deluxe treat eat Quaker Pop Rise and Quaker Pop Wheat."
Most of the stampeders who poured into the Yukon territory were driven by a blind lust for gold or a restless urge for adventure. But some came for a different reason. They came to escape the past and start life over again under a new identity.
Among the latter was a man named Edmund Grant. Grant was one of the lucky few who struck it rich. But one night as he sat alone in his cabin on Hunker Creek, he heard an ominous knocking at the door.
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