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https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1947/3/15/valley-of-mystery
Valley of Mystery
PIERRE BERTON
TAKE your map of Canada and find the corner where British Columbia, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories meet. Now go a few score miles directly north. You’re looking down into the fantastic never-never land of Headless Valley. There, between the Mackenzie Mountains and the Selwyn Range, lies the 200-mile-long twisted river system of the South Nahanni, the supposed haunt of head-hunters and of gigantic prehistoric mastodons, and the actual spawning ground of stupendous myths.
The South Nahanni, a spectacular enough river in its own right (its falls are almost twice the height of Niagara, its gorges are 1,500 feet deep), is fast becoming the most talked-about river in North America. Around it. cluster more rumor and legend - and fewer facts than around any comparable water system on the continent. This is a pretty good showing for an area that attracts the merest trickle of travellers, especially when you consider that a healthy proportion of those travellers meets a sticky end.
For this is forbidding country, which has been disastrous to both white man and Indian. According to the U. S. Geographical Survey, virulent meningitis once wiped out an Indian village in the area. Some Indians say the valley’s haunted. At any rate, no one lives there now. Of the relatively few whites who have explored and prospected along the Nahanni, three have been murdered, another may have been murdered, and almost a dozen, including a girl, have simply vanished.
The body of one of the murdered men was found without a head. Although it was fairly well established at the time—30 years ago—that wolves had hauled the skull away from the skeleton, the gruesome find gave rise to the head-hunter legend and gave the region its popular name, Headless Valley.
Actually, the “valley” includes two rivers (the Nahanni and the Flat), several valleys, three canyons, a flock of tributary creeks (with hot and cold running water), immense falls, rapids, gorges, limestone caves and a few other added attractions, all of which add up to some pretty breath-taking scenery.
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https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1947/3/15/valley-of-mystery
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