Naked in the Spear Grass: The Wanderings of John Pritchard
If Yvon Chouinard was right when he declared, “It’s not an adventure until something goes wrong,” John Pritchard’s journey across the prairies in 1805 was an adventure with a capital “A”. On June 11, the young Englishman set out from home at Fort La Souris, east of today’s Brandon, Manitoba, with a friend to deliver…