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Challenge of the Yukon

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Challenge of the Yukon is an American radio adventure series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ and is an example of a Northern genre story. [1]

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Alaskan husky

The Alaskan husky is not considered a pure breed.

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Alaskan Malamute

The Alaskan Malamute is a large breed of domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) originally bred for hauling heavy freight due to their strength and endurance, and later as a sled dog.

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Alberto Giolitti

Alberto Giolitti (November 14, 1923 – April 15, 1993) was an Italian-American comic book artist.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Announcer

An announcer is a person who makes "announcements" in an audio medium or a physical location.

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Ashcroft, Colorado

Ashcroft, originally known as Castle Forks City then Chloride until 1882, was a mining town located ten miles (16 km) south of Aspen, Colorado, United States.

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Bob Hite (announcer)

Bob Hite, Sr. (February 9, 1914 in Decatur, Indiana – February 18, 2000 in West Palm Beach, Florida) was an American radio and television announcer, voice-over artist, and news anchor.

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Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a large, primarily residential, public research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States.

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Brace Beemer

Brace Beemer (December 9, 1902 – March 1, 1965) was an American radio actor and announcer at radio station WXYZ (AM), Detroit, Michigan.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Challenge of the Yukon

Challenge of the Yukon is an American radio adventure series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ and is an example of a Northern genre story.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Connecticut Post

The Connecticut Post is a daily newspaper located in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Dell Comics

Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Donna Diana

Donna Diana is a comic opera in three acts by Emil von Reznicek.

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Emil von Reznicek

Emil Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von Reznicek (4 May 1860, Vienna – 2 August 1945, Berlin) was an Austrian composer of Czech ancestry.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Film series

A film series, film franchise, movie series, or movie franchise is a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe, or are marketed as a series.

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Four Color

Four Color, also known as Four Color Comics and One Shots, was an American comic book anthology series published by Dell Comics between 1939 and 1962.

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Fran Striker

Francis Hamilton "Fran" Striker (August 19, 1903 – September 4, 1962) was an American writer for radio and comics, best known for creating the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon characters.

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Fred Foy

Frederick William Foy (March 27, 1921December 22, 2010) was an American radio and television announcer and actor, who used Fred Foy as his professional name.

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French Canadians

French Canadians (also referred to as Franco-Canadians or Canadiens; Canadien(ne)s français(es)) are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in Canada from the 17th century onward.

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Gaylord DuBois

Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois (sometimes written DuBois) (August 24, 1899 – October 20, 1993) was an American writer of comic book stories and comic strips, as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure novels.

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George W. Trendle

George Washington Trendle (July 4, 1884May 10, 1972) was a Detroit lawyer and businessman best known as the producer of the Lone Ranger radio and television programs along with The Green Hornet.

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Gold rush

A gold rush is a new discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.

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Golden Age of Radio

The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, was an era of radio programming in the United States during which radio was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium.

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Green Hornet

The Green Hornet is a fictional masked crime-fighter created in 1936 by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, with input from radio director James Jewell.

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Husky

Husky is a general name for a sled-type of dog used in northern regions, differentiated from other sled-dog types by their fast pulling style.

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Jack Wrather

John Devereaux Wrather Jr. (May 24, 1918 – November 12, 1984), was an entrepreneur and petroleum businessman who became a television producer and later diversified by investing in broadcast stations and resort properties.

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Jim Harmon

James Judson Harmon (21 April 1933 – 16 February 2010), better known as Jim Harmon, was an American short story author and popular culture historian who wrote extensively about the Golden Age of Radio.

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John Todd (actor)

John Todd (born John Frederick "Fred" McCarthy; August 14, 1876 – July 14, 1957) was an American actor.

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King of the Royal Mounted

King of the Royal Mounted is an American comic book series created in 1935 by Stephen Slesinger, based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's byline and marketed as Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted.

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Klondike Big Inch Land Promotion

Klondike Big Inch Land Promotion Certificate The Klondike Big Inch Land promotion was a marketing promotion run by the Quaker Oats Company in 1955 and created by Bruce Baker, a Chicago advertising executive.

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Klondike, Yukon

The Klondike is a region of the Yukon territory in northwest Canada, east of the Alaskan border.

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Land claim

Land claim(s) are a legal declaration of desired control over areas of property including bodies of water.

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Lassie (1954 TV series)

Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, both human and animal.

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Laurie York Erskine

Laurie York Erskine (23 June 1894 – 30 November 1976) was a popular boys adventure author, educator, and co-founder of the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend, Tonto.

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Milton Bradley Company

The Milton Bradley Company was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860.

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Mutual Broadcasting System

The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network; corporate name Mutual Broadcasting System, Inc.) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999.

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Narration

Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

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North-West Mounted Police

The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian police force, established in 1873 by the Prime Minister, Sir John Macdonald, to maintain order in the North-West Territories.

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Northern (genre)

The Northern or Northwestern is a genre in various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the north of North America, primarily in Canada but also in Alaska.

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Paul Sutton

Paul Sutton (May 14, 1910 in Albuquerque, New Mexico – January 31, 1970 in Ferndale, Michigan) was an American film actor, appearing mostly in uncredited roles, and most often in low budget B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Puffed grain

Puffed grains have been made for centuries with the simplest methods like popping popcorn.

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Puffed rice

Puffed rice is a type of puffed grain from the Indian subcontinent, made from rice, commonly used in breakfast cereal or snack foods, and served as a popular street food in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

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Quaker Oats Company

The Quaker Oats Company, known as Quaker, is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted was a popular series of boy's adventure books written by Laurie York Erskine that later were filmed and became a series on both radio and television.

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Richard Simmons (actor)

Richard Simmons (August 19, 1913 – January 11, 2003), known as Dick Simmons, was an American actor.

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Robert W. Service

Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon".

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC), "Royal Gendarmerie of Canada"; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as "the Force") is the federal and national police force of Canada.

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Sergeant Preston

The Sergeant Preston Game is a Milton Bradley Company board game copyright dated 1956, and based on the television program, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1955–1958) starring Richard "Dick" Simmons.

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Serial film

A serial, film serial, movie serial or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed.

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Sled dog

Sled dogs were important for transportation in arctic areas, hauling supplies in areas that were inaccessible by other methods.

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Soapy Smith

Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II (November 2, 1860 – July 8, 1898) was a con artist and gangster in the Old West.

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Sound effect

A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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Texas Ranger Division

The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in Texas, based in the capital city of Austin.

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The Lone Ranger (TV series)

The Lone Ranger is an American western drama television series that aired on the ABC Television network from 1949 to 1957, with Clayton Moore in the starring role.

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The Lone Star Ranger

The Lone Star Ranger is a Western novel published by Zane Grey in 1915.

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Timeless Media Group

Timeless Media Group (TMG) is an American home entertainment company that produces and distributes various audio and video products on CD, DVD & Blu-ray for the home video market.

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Turok

Turok is a fictional character who first appeared in American comic books published by Western Publishing through licensee Dell Comics.

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William Carey Graves

William Carey Graves (December 1, 1895 in Washington Parish, Louisiana – January 26, 1966 in Dallas, Texas) was a Democratic Texas State Senator for 4 terms and Majority Leader & Senate President for two of those terms.

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Wolfdog

A wolfdog (also called a wolf–dog hybrid or wolf hybrid) is a canid hybrid resulting from the hybridization of a domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) to one of four other Genus Canis taxa, the gray (Canis lupus), eastern timber (Canis lycaon), red (Canis rufus), or ethiopian (Canis simensis).

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Wolverine

The wolverine (also spelled wolverene), Gulo gulo (Gulo is Latin for "glutton"), also referred to as the glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch, is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae.

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WXYT (AM)

WXYT (1270 AM, branded CBS Sports Radio 1270) is a commercial radio station licensed to Detroit, Michigan broadcasting a sports talk format.

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Yukon

Yukon (also commonly called the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three federal territories (the other two are the Northwest Territories and Nunavut).

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Zane Grey

Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier.

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1938 in radio

The year 1938 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

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1949 in television

The year 1949 in television involved some significant events.

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1954 in radio

The year 1954 in radio involved some significant events.

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1955 in television

The year 1955 in television involved some significant events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_of_the_Yukon

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