The Captive one of the valley of the White Anguish

the captive one of the valley of the white Anguish is a history in Cartoon of Don Rosa, published in 2006. She puts in scene Balthazar Picsou and Goldie O' Gilt. The nephews of the first Donald Duck, Riri, Fifi and Loulou appear in introduction and conclusion. It is held mainly with the Yukon.

Synopsis

Riri, Fifi and Loulou arrive in the safe of Picsou whereas this one is contemplating one of the many objects which it piled up during its adventures, while Donald “airs” the tickets. Then engage a debate between Donald and his nephews on the most invaluable good that Picsou has: Donald thinks that it is of the safe and all the money which he contains, Riri the nugget “egg of goose” which made his fortune, Fifi the castle of McPicsou and Loulou the penny n°1. Of needle and thread, they start to evoke the past of Picsou to the Yukon. Until the three ducklings require of their great-uncle what it occurred during the month that Goldie passed in the concession of the valley of the white Anguish, to fear from Donald.

Under the shock of the question, Picsou is reminded then this month when, to punish Goldie to have tried to steal the nugget “goose egg”, it led it to work on its concession under the painful conditions known by the minors. And how it had to face three personalities of the time, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Roy Bean, come to deliver the cabaret dancer to launch new a Saloon to Dawson City.

Data sheet

History n°D 2005-061.
Editor: Egmont.
Title of the first publication: White Agony Creekin vanki (Finnish).
Title in English: The Prisoner Off White Agony Creek .
Title in French: the captive one of the valley of the white Anguish .
31 boards plus two boards of summary for the diffusion in three parts.
Author and draftsman: Gift Rosa.
First publications: Aku Ankka n°2006-18 at 2006-20, Finland, May 2006.
First publication in the United States: album The Life and Times off Scrooge McDuck Companion , September 2006.
First publication in France: Picsou Magazine n°417, October 2006.

References to Carl Barks

The month spent by Goldie in the concession of Picsou is inspired by Retour to Klondike , a history of Carl Barks published in 1953 and into which it introduces the character of Goldie O' Gilt. Soapy Slick is also a character of Barks that Don Rosa places on the way of Picsou at the same time as Goldie during the years of the Gold rush of the Klondike.

This history in the work of Gift Rosa

This history is an episode (a) of the saga the Youth of Picsou of Gift Rosa. It intercalates between episode 8 “the Emperor of Klondike” (1993) and the episode 8c the Two Hearts of Yukon (1995). With these three stories, Don Rosa expresses the passion increased for the stories of Barks which he knew in the years 1970 during the publication of the four pages of Flashback of Retour to Klondike that the editor Western Publishing excludes from the initial publication: they show Picsou young and combative vis-a-vis an army of will pochtrons and Goldie.

Very quickly evoked by Barks in the Return to Klondike , the love of Goldie and Picsou are detailed by Don Rosa in this history, by using unexpected reactions for adults in a cartoon initially planned for children. On board 3, for example, when Donald returns his nephews outward journey to play or look at television whereas those do not include/understand the range of their question on what it occurred during this month from reclusion with Goldie. During the account passed, the calm one is done in the hut of Picsou after a brawl with Goldie, it is judge Roy Bean who stops the course of the history to prevent more. It employs a Périphrase: “ After a long deliberation - based on an long experience of the life - the court decided that what occurred in this hut did not involve not hanging with Langtry, Texas… and nowhere elsewhere , God thank you! ”

Historical and cultural references

In this history, Don Rosa utilizes historical characters. The trio which tries to save Goldie had well saloons and casinos during their retirement of the police and legal activities, and Gift Rosa uses certain coincidences in their respective life to make plausible an imaginary association to open a saloon with Dawson City about 1897, during the Gold rush of Klondike. It is about:

Wyatt Earp (already used in “the Emperor of Klondike”) which had a saloon with Nome in Alaska,
of the Shérif Bat Masterson which knew Soapy Smith (which inspires the character barksien of Soapy Slick)
and of the judge Roy Bean who with the reputation to make a justice expeditious in its saloon to Langtry to the Texas. It is caricatured in the history like condemning to hanging any intrusion in its vital space (to reverse its alcohol glass, to project mud to him on the boots, etc)

On the other hand, the two gangsters Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (with allusion to their “wild horde” or Wild Bunch ) were still in activity in the West of the United States. Don Rosa imagines in box 12 that the two criminals take refuge a time with the Canada to escape the agency from detectives Pinkerton

It is also mentioned the type-setter John Philip Sousa.

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