Word: nahanni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legends told about the Northwest's Nahanni (Headless) Valley (TIME, Jan. 20) stirred up so much interest that the Vancouver Sun sent out its own explorers for a first-hand look. By last week the accounts of the travelers, Reporter Pierre Berton and Photographer Art Jones, had, to the surprise of no one, thoroughly shattered all the fantastic folklore of Headless Valley...
...legend of Nahanni started with the two MacLeod brothers 40 years ago. Their bodies were found in the valley reportedly without heads. That was enough to start people calling it "Headless Valley...
...where the river never froze even when the temperature sank to 50 below in the surrounding mountains. Great herds of fat deer and caribou, they said, cropped the green pastures. Last week the tales had grown so fantastic that the Vancouver Sun's columnist, Jack Scott, burlesqued the Nahanni as a "bodyless valley where ripe bananas hang from the boughs of pine trees [and] dusky native girls swim about in the deep, warm pools...
Gold in Streaks. But not all Nahanni legend was nonsense. Even from the air, the valley seems a lonely and lovely place amid the jagged escarpments (see cut). The University of Alberta's exploring Professor Alan E. Cameron, who entered the valley in 1936, explained the mild climate; chinooks (warm winds) keep the air balmy and moist. The lush grass attracts game and hot springs help warm the air. Also gold had been found there...
Last week in Toronto, ex-U.S. Marine WT. E. Bateman was getting set to take a party up the Nahanni next summer to look for Patterson and gold. In Vancouver, Tom Carolan, Army veteran and film technician, planned to lead an expedition into the valley this spring to make a travel film. Perhaps Canadians would soon have another explanation of the wonders of the Headless Valley...