Previously on Showdown in the Yukon:  

Ex-pickpocket "Monterey" Jack Danvers has been hired by his old partner, Mack Sutherland, to help Mrs. Finch and her daughter Lucy recover a gold deed in the Yukon.  The adventure has involved bandits, pirates, a mysterious pearl-like stone, and a just-in-time encounter with a native tribe.  It is now morning, and our merry band of adventurers is in the sparse home of a strange hermit named Pete. 

Will he give them the help they need to make it to the Yukon before the first snowfall, or will his lack of trust be another roadblock?

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Previously on Showdown in the Yukon:  Ex-pickpocket "Monterey" Jack Danvers has been hired by his old partner, Mack Sutherland, to help Mrs. Finch and her daughter Lucy recover a gold deed in the Yukon.  The adventure has involved bandits, pirates, a shipwreck, and wandering through mysterious mountain caves.  They are now hoping in the kindness of a native tribe to get them safely to the Yukon before the first snowfall, but Mack and the native, Mungo, have a troubled history.

Oh, my what will happen next?  

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If you are new to this story, this is a decent chapter to jump in with... Of course, it would be best if you slid on back to episode 19 where the whole thing starts... but this will work too as a nice catch-up.

There is also the continuation of one of the themes of the novel and we discuss that just a bit.  

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For this one we look a little at the green of the American northwest, the greatness of Deus ex Machina, and our heroes jump from the frying pan and into the fire... literally.  Or literarily... Both, really.

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So, I got into fiction because I didn't need to do research... I could just make stuff up!  However, it turns out, I needed to do just a wee little bit of research to see if hand grenades were used in the Civil War.  As it turns out they were, which is good because I needed Mack to do something to throw off the pirates!  Anyway, you can find out a bit about them... and more.

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No Easter eggs in this one, but we do get a little more of a glimpse into why I plan on naming this series the Pearl Saga... again, I'm terrible at naming things, so if you have a better series title idea, please let me know!

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Seriously, if you haven't read the novel Phantom of the Opera and have only see the musical (not terrible) or any of the movies (many of them are), you totally should!    

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This is the episode I've been telling/warning you about since this whole adventure started.  In this episode is the big reveal as to what story spine this book was written... and why!

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Hey!  Look who's about to turn 30 episodes old in a week!

Thanks for tuning in.  This chapter is a fun one and we get to meet some pirates, have a crazy dream, and travel into caves.  So much adventure it hurts! 

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There was a time, many years ago, when my wife and I took a trip to Hawaii.  It was only for a week, but even then I started to get what is called "Rock Fever" where you realize you have nowhere to go because you're on an island in the middle of the ocean.  In my case, I think it was mostly due to growing up and living most of my years in the Great Plains of the United States - very, very far from water.

Which is to say, I don't know much about water, sailing, shipping, etc.  And yet, I wrote a whole chapter (thankfully, only one) that gets me well away from the common writing advice of "write what you know."

Ah, well.

It does put our adventurers in a great deal of peril, which is a key ingredient to any good adventure tale.  So all in all, it's a win.  Right?

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