Dangerous RiverNarrative of author's journey up South Nahanni River, NWT in 1927 and his winter in that region in 1928-29. |
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Page 24
... miles ; its southern end was no more than half a mile away , at the foot of a little hill down which the trail wound through the trees to the shore . The gravel ridge was the divide between the Pacific and the Arctic Oceans and the lake ...
... miles ; its southern end was no more than half a mile away , at the foot of a little hill down which the trail wound through the trees to the shore . The gravel ridge was the divide between the Pacific and the Arctic Oceans and the lake ...
Page 26
... miles down the Flat River in their box - like contraption , roughly the same distance down the Nahanni , and finally eighty miles up the Liard . They started off light - heartedly enough and tried to run the Canyon , as dirty a piece of ...
... miles down the Flat River in their box - like contraption , roughly the same distance down the Nahanni , and finally eighty miles up the Liard . They started off light - heartedly enough and tried to run the Canyon , as dirty a piece of ...
Page 73
... miles upstream from the mouth of the Flat River , and those twenty miles , as I was soon to find out , are the worst on all the lower river . Short canyons of red and yellow rock through which the river boils and races , rock strewn in ...
... miles upstream from the mouth of the Flat River , and those twenty miles , as I was soon to find out , are the worst on all the lower river . Short canyons of red and yellow rock through which the river boils and races , rock strewn in ...
Contents
The Legend | 17 |
South Nahanni River | 41 |
Deadmens Valley | 104 |
Copyright | |
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afternoon bank beach beaver blazing blue blue grouse breakfast bush cabin Cache Rapid camp canoe canyon wall caribou Charlie McLeod Chinook cliff climbed cold Deadmen's Valley deep dogs downstream drifted driftpile dropped eddy Faille Faille's feet fire Flat River foot Fort Liard Fort Simpson going gold Gordon grey head Hot Springs Hudson's Bay Company Indians island Jack jammed ledge Liard light load looked Lower Canyon marten McLeod meat Meilleur miles moose morning Nahanni Butte night outfit pack paddle point of rock pole portage Prairie Creek Ram Creek riffle rifle rock round scow shadow sheep shore shot Simpson slope smoke snow snowshoes snye South Nahanni spruce Starke Stevens stream supper tea pail thing toboggan trackline tracks trail trap trees Twisted Mountain upper Liard upstream warm wild wind wolverine wood Yukon