In the Fall of 1946, the Canadian press began to circulate stories of lost miners and hidden riches in a far northwest “Tropical” Valley. Weary of war news and the post-war depression, these fanciful tales of mysterious occurrences caught the public’s attention, and a young cub reporter for the Vancouver Sun, Pierre Berton, who wrote many of them, had the bold notion of racing against his literary competitors for the honor of being first on the scene in the now infamous South Nahanni Valley.
