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Yukon Madness
Itauk the Madman has spread death to the Yukon, throwing the bodies of his victims to his sled team of twelve wolves. Tracking him down are Canadian Mountie Tommy McKenna and his partner Simmons. But when the pair separate to hunt for food, Itauk attacks Simmons and lets his wolves make an unmentionable feast that Tommy later discovers on his return to camp.
Enraged, Tommy follows the maniac's trail to a village and en route he meets an enchanting Eskimo woman named Kaja. Of course, the route's a trap set by Itauk, and the only one who can save Tommy is Kaja— engaged to be wed to the ruthless killer, who plans to serve the Mountie as the next meal for his personal wolf pack.
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HISTORICAL NOTE: YUKON MADNESS
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Yukon Madness, by L. Ron Hubbard, was first published in August 1935 in New Mystery Adventures magazine. It was one of several stories Ron would write about the Canadian Royal Mounted Police, a unique breed of lawmen he came to know firsthand while traveling in Canada and Alaska. The Mounties made for excellent story material as can be seen in this bizarre occurance told to Ron by a Mountie who had just completed a murder investigation among the Eskimos. This is what he had to say:
"I was amongst the Eskimos once, and a tremendous tumult had occured in a tribe a little further south.
"An epidemic of murder was in progress. Men were dying under the sphere of night, and for no apparent reason."
A Mountie arrived by dog sled and announced to Ron and his friends that the epidemic of murder was over.
As Ron explained it, "Apparently a missionary came in and talked to these Eskimos, and told them hell was a place of eternal fire, and that murder was the surest way there.
"Naturally, to the Eskimos—cold all winter—it had a certain appeal."
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