At the dawn of the 20th century two brothers prospecting for gold hoped to find their fortune in the Northern region of Canada. Instead, they suffered horrific deaths. The identity of the person who brutally killed the McLeod brothers remains unknown more than 100 later.
The Episode
- The Calgary Albertan (Calgary, Alberta, Canada): Edmonton men murdered in far north.
- The Western Star (Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada): Grim tragedy’s grisly relic.
- The Evening Post (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada): Find bodies of lost men.
- The Evening Post (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada): Tragic Tale of Lost Men.
- Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada): An Indian outlaw band.
- Whitehorse Daily Star (Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada): Mystery Solved.
- Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): Fokker Seaplane in quest of treasure reaches M’Murray.
- Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): Prospectors navigated treacherous Nahanni River in light canoes.
- Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): First gold stampede by air starting to Nahanni country, 1,200 miles North Edmonton.
- Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): Gold stampedes to rush Nahanni area in spring.
- Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): Disappointed gold-seekers back from Nahanni country; hopes of rich find dashed, by J.M. Gilroy.
- Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): Weird story north retold.
- The Expositor (Brantford, Ontario, Canada): Free-milling Gold Found.
- Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada): Four years in notorious ‘Headless Valley’, by Dave Driver.
- Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): Nahanni furore baffles survivor McLeod Brothers, by Jim Rennie.
- The Leader-Post (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada): Over the Nahanni, by Pierre Berton.
- The Calgary Albertan (Calgary, Alberta, Canada): Denies reports on Nahanni Valley, Letter by G.M. McLeod.
- Macleans (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Valley of Mystery, by Pierre Berton.
- The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada): Push back the wilderness, by Lee Stanley.
- The Victoria Daily Times (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada): Famous Canadian Army surveyor debunks headless valley tales.
- The Sun Times (Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada): Survey party will enter headless valley in summer to map entire district, by Canadian Press.
- The Montreal Star (Montreal, Quebec, Canada): The Jinx of Headless Valley Kills Again, by Stephen Franklin.
- The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada): The men of headless valley ‘Brothers slain for their gold’, by Moira Farrow.
- Nahanni River Adventures: RIVER STORIES: THE MCLEOD BROTHERS THREE, by Dana Hibbard.
- Parks Canada Website: Nahanni National Park Reserve Information
- Strange Outdoors: Mysteries of the Nahanni Park Reserve in Canada
- Unesco World Heritage Convention: Nahanni National Park