The Prisoner of White Agony Creek
| "The Prisoner of White Agony Creek" | |
|---|---|
 Don Rosa's cover artwork for the story | |
| Story code | D 2005-061 |
| Story | Don Rosa |
| Ink | Don Rosa |
| Hero | Scrooge McDuck |
| Pages | 33 |
| Layout | 4 rows per page |
| Appearances | Scrooge McDuck Goldie O'Gilt Donald Duck Huey, Dewey and Louie Soapy Slick |
| First publication | May 3, 2006 |
"The Prisoner of White Agony Creek" is a Scrooge McDuck comic by Don Rosa. The story takes place between "King of the Klondike" and "Hearts of the Yukon" in the series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck making it part 8B. The story shows how Goldie O'Gilt was taken to White Agony Creek. As Don Rosa announced his retirement in June 2008, this is his final story.
Plot
The story takes place in the Klondike Gold Rush and features Scrooge McDuck, who abducts Goldie O'Gilt and takes her to White Agony Creek, where she is forced to dig for gold. Meanwhile Soapy Slick sends three famous lawmen, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Judge Roy Bean, to rescue Goldie from Scrooge but it seems she doesn't want to be rescued — at least not until after she steals Scrooge's gold nugget. Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid are also involved in this caper; they kidnap Goldie and steal Scrooge's nugget. But Scrooge eventually rescues Goldie and gets his nugget back. After that he and Goldie start to get along better near the end of the story, and in a few panels without words, Rosa suggests that she stays for at least weeks or even months with Scrooge in his cabin by having ice and snow of the harsh Agony Creek winter melt and disappear in the sequence.
Some observers of the story have connected the latter event of Goldie staying in with Scrooge for a longer time to the fact that throughout the story, they increasingly come to realize they care more for each other than they would like to admit even to themselves, as well as to Freudian slip-type dialogue notably risky for a Disney comic between them earlier in the story, although the story subtly avoids the issue of what happens in the cabin during Goldie's long stay.
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