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Challenge of the Yukon: Death by Proxy

Challenge of the Yukon · June 5, 1952 · 29 min · 4,780 words

The transcript of “Death by Proxy”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast June 5, 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 windswept, snow-covered reaches of the Wild Northwest, Quaker Pops Wheat, and Quaker Pops Right, the breakfast cereals shot from guns. Present Sergeant Preston of the UConn. It's UConn King, swift at the strongest lead dog of the North West, flating the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers.

On King on, you husking! Go, go, go, 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 Pump Wheat and Quaker Pump Rise, bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King as they meet the

Challenge of the Yukon! Even if you hate to get out of bed in the morning, I bet you'll be out like a shot for the breakfast treat that shot from guns. Quaker Pop Wheat and Quaker Pop Rice. It's the best wake-up-up there is. Try it tomorrow.

And today, in a few minutes, get in on a terrific offer. A prospector's tent plus a genuine camp stove. Have paper and pencil ready. Sergeant Preston was on duty when the young minor entered Northwest Mountain Police headquarters in Dawson.

It was obvious that he'd just come in from the trail, and he was dead tired. The Sergeant motioned to the chair beside his desk. Sit down. Thanks. What can I do for him? I'm here to report a murder.

A murder? Where? Happened a long way from here. A little town called Caribou, where Caribou Creek flows into the Indian River. I know the place. Who was murdered? His name was Fred Barnett, the owner of the Confian Caribou.

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