Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Frank Henderson, a prospector who had arranged to meet his partner, John Patterson, in the valley last summer, never found him. But Henderson came out of the valley with 30 ounces of go'd which he said he picked up "coarse and free on the bottom of a creek and strung out in quartz along the cliffs...
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...
...France, and wrote two exciting autobiographical books about it (Waiting in the Night, Horned Pigeon). His first novel, and his third book to be published in the U.S. in the past year, packs all its action and reflection into one week in May 1945, in a secluded Austrian valley -less than a week after...
...occupation authorities. Price: immunity for himself and family. But Willy falls into the hands of a cynical U.S. war correspondent posing as a captain, who wants the story but has no power to save Willy. Worse, a gang of fanatical SS men, still at large, moves into the valley and goes gunning for Willy...