This series of caches placed mainly in Fayette County or surrounding counties are based on some of my favorite childhood Saturday morning TV shows from the middle to late 1950s.
Richard Simmons starred as Sgt. Preston, and was supported by his dog Yukon King and horse Rex, now played by real animals. The dog cast as King was not a husky, however, but a large Alaskan Malamute. The show, an action adventure TV series, was shown from 1955-1958.
In 1955, the Quaker Oats Company gave away land in the Klondike as part of the Klondike Big Inch Land Promotion which was tied in with the television show. Genuine deeds each to one square inch of a lot in Yukon Territory, issued by Klondike Big Inch Land Co. Inc., were inserted into Quaker's Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice cereal boxes.