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Challenge of the Yukon: Brave Death

Challenge of the Yukon · April 24, 1952 · 29 min · 4,433 words

The transcript of “Brave Death”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast April 24, 1952. 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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While his gunshots echo across the wind swept, snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker popped wheat, and Quaker popped rice, a breakfast cereal shot from gun. Present, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. It's Yukon King, swift as the strongest lead dog of the Northwest, placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mountain Police.

In his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers, Unking! Unyucky! Go! 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 Pop Wheat and Quaker Pop Rice, bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King, as they meet the challenge of the Yukon.

Oh, one that can make a better cereal than Quaker Pops Wheat. It's neat. And when you hear that shooting, you're doing too. The Quaker makes the ones shot from guns. And why not make breakfast a bang up meal every morning?

Pour out a bowl full of the ones shot from guns. Delicious Quaker Pops Wheat or Quaker Pops Rice. They're actually exploded up to eight times normal size. Puff to perfection, a deluxe treat with milk or cream and sliced bananas.

So tomorrow reach for the big red and blue package of crisp, delicious, Quaker Pop Wheat, or Quaker Pop Right. Johnny Hamilton's trading post was in the forest about ten miles north of Grand Lege. He woke up one morning to learn that his assistant, Lou Wilson, had absconded during the night, taking five hundred dollars in cash.

Johnny left his mother in charge of the post and drove into Grand Lege to report the robbery. It was agreed that if he didn't find a mountie there, he would go on to Dawson. So Mrs. Hamilton wasn't exactly worried when the hours passed and he didn't return. Her thoughts were with her son constantly, however. Otherwise, she might not have wondered why a single Indian

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