Kayla Moore
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first heard Aug 2026
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Kayla Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It had been washed there by the yearly snowmelt, and it was evidence of yet another expedition gone wrong.
The canoe belonged to Willie and Frank McCloud, brothers who went up river sometime in 1904 or 1905.
They were both Métis, men of mixed native and Caucasian ancestry, and they were convinced that there was gold to be found in the mountains.
Their younger brother, Charlie, heard that their canoe had been found, and he started gathering a search party to go find them.
The following spring, he traveled upriver with five other men, including his brother, Danny, and a frontiersman named Poolfield.
Now, Charlie knew that Will and Frank had been on the trail of Nahanni gold for almost five years.
In 1900, they had unearthed nuggets of gold by panning in the riverbanks.
And what they found was known as placer gold.
It's just the gold that breaks away from rock thanks to erosion and weather patterns.
It's very easy to get.
So, Willie and Frank went out on another expedition, this time with a steamboat engineer that they had met named Robert Weir.
and nobody had seen or heard from them since 1905.
And then their empty canoe was found in the spring of 1907.
In May of 1908, Charlie McLeod's company found some evidence of an encampment in a valley beyond Nahanni River's first canyon.
By the side of the river, there was a small man-made clearing among the trees.
The party stepped out of their boats onto the riverbank to investigate.
If there had been a campsite there, it was long gone.
Besides the cut trees, the only evidence remaining was a plank of wood with a short message penciled into it that just read, "'We have found a fine prospect.'"
The handwriting on this board was confirmed to belong to one of the McLeod brothers.
They continued up river towards the very tip of the valley.
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