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Challenge of the Yukon: The Land Otter's Totem

Challenge of the Yukon · March 6, 1952 · 30 min · 4,366 words

The transcript of “The Land Otter's Totem”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast March 6, 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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Now, as gunshots echo across the wind swept, snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker Pops Wheat, and Quaker Pops Rise, the breakfast cereal shot from gun presents Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. Woop woop woop woop woop!

It's Yukon King, swift at the strongest lead dog of the northwest, Placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police, in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers, and ting on your 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 Quaker Pop Week and Quaker Pop's rise,

bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog, Yukon King, as they meet the challenge of the Yukon. No one that can make a better serial than Quaker Pop wheat. It's neat. And when you hear that shooting, your turn tootin', the Quaker makes the ones shot from gun.

So be sure, fellas and girls, that your breakfast always includes a heaping bowlful of delicious, crisp, Quaker Pop Wheat or Quaker Pop Rice. Sergeant Preston and a young man named Ted Sheridan were in the northwest searching for Ted's father.

Professor Emma Sheridan would fail to return from an expedition. They knew that the professor and authority on Indians had planned to investigate a story that gold had been buried near an Indian totem pole. At the Indian village of the Thunderbird Totem, mysterious happenings convinced them that the expedition had met with serious trouble.

Having an inkling of where the professor had gone next, Preston and Ted started for the village of the Clowax, where the unusual fight for the land-daughter's totem was located. The chill deathness of fall weather filled Ted Sheridan with fore-boding, as the two men rode across the low-mountain range toward the Clowax village on the coast.

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