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Challenge of the Yukon: The Third Strike
Challenge of the Yukon · March 17, 1951 · 29 min · 5,336 words
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The transcript of “The Third Strike”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast March 17, 1951. 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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The challenge of the Yukon! It's Yukon King, swiftness and strong asleep dog of the North West, placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the North West mounted police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers! On King! On you Huskies!
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 Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog, Yukon King, as they beat the challenge of the Yukon.
Red Manson had been an outlaw leader in Texas back in the States. When the law broke up his gang, he escaped to San Francisco. There he heard about the gold strike in the Yukon territory.
Red took passage to Dawson City, hoping to accumulate riches in a hurry. But when he arrived there and discovered that the fine gold he'd have to put in hours of hard work, Red decided against it.
He drifted southward to Selkirk. There he met others hoping to find easy money. He met with four such men in his room at the Selkirk Hotel one night. Red did most of the talking. Tell us if there's plenty of gold and cash to be had up here just for the taken.
There's no use breaking your back digging for it in my way. You're right. When I was in the southwest territory down the state, I had a gang. We made plenty. Well, if you made so much, Red, why did you come up here to the Yukon?
Yeah, that's what I'd like to know. Why'd you give up your gang down in the state? Oh, don't be a couple of dopes. A gang was broken up by a sheriff in a posse. I escaped.
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