Idol, The
Broadcast: 25th May 1944
Added: May 28 2006
In 1833 Alaska and the Yukon Territory were for the first time invaded by white men. Before these men appeared the Yukon had known countless generations of peace inhabited only by Indians who were disinterested in the yellow flakes of glittering ore they found in clear streams in the long riverbanks. To them animal skins were far more valuable and it was for the same skins that Count Igor Petronovich made the journey to an unknown land.