Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (TV series)
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon is a half-hour long American action adventure northwestern television series, broadcast in color on CBS Thursday evenings at 7:30 to 8:00 p.m. from September 29, 1955, to September 25, 1958. It was based on the radio drama Challenge of the Yukon.
Richard Simmons as Sergeant Preston with Yukon King, 1955
The Northern or Northwestern is a genre in various arts that tell stories set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the north of North America, primarily in western Canada but also in Alaska. It is similar to the Western genre, but many elements are different, as appropriate to its setting. It is common for the central character to be a Mountie instead of a cowboy or sheriff. Other common characters include fur trappers and traders, lumberjacks, prospectors, First Nations people, settlers, and townsfolk.
Poster for the film O'Malley of the Mounted (1921)
The North-West Mounted Police, and later the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, were often the heroes of Northern fiction.
The Yukon (occasionally near the Alaskan border) was a common setting for Northern fiction.
Poster for the play Heart of the Klondike (c. 1897)
