Who is your favorite historical prospector?
I think mine has to be Kate Rice, because of her beauty, grit, determination, and work ethic. In many ways she reminds me of my own wife Katie, and not just in similar name, but because of some of the other factors. Yet I guess a person typically cheers for the underdog, and in her case, before woman suffrage, she could not even stake a claim because she was a woman.
She made some pretty big discoveries though, was a great writer, and knew how to handle men. It was said one day in an old prospecting cabin, Kate...who was almost as gorgeous as Tiffany Amber Theiseen by all accounts, had an old nasty miner make a pass at her. She took a knife and stuck it in the floor boards of the shack, and said she would shoot him if he stepped over the knife, then rolled over and went to sleep, confident in her threat, and that it would deter him.
It was funny too that at the end of her life, she thought she was insane, and checked herself into a mental hospital where they determined she was of sound mind, and "just a prospector". That is probably the brutal truth for us all. Sadly, despite her discoveries, and larger than life; life,,,she died penniless and landed in an unmarked grave.
Perhaps that is fitting. Every headstone I have seen has a birthdate and death date with only a dash in between. That dash is that person's entire life, and represented by a simple symbol. I hope Canadian Schools teach their kids about Kate Rice...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Rice
I think mine has to be Kate Rice, because of her beauty, grit, determination, and work ethic. In many ways she reminds me of my own wife Katie, and not just in similar name, but because of some of the other factors. Yet I guess a person typically cheers for the underdog, and in her case, before woman suffrage, she could not even stake a claim because she was a woman.
She made some pretty big discoveries though, was a great writer, and knew how to handle men. It was said one day in an old prospecting cabin, Kate...who was almost as gorgeous as Tiffany Amber Theiseen by all accounts, had an old nasty miner make a pass at her. She took a knife and stuck it in the floor boards of the shack, and said she would shoot him if he stepped over the knife, then rolled over and went to sleep, confident in her threat, and that it would deter him.
It was funny too that at the end of her life, she thought she was insane, and checked herself into a mental hospital where they determined she was of sound mind, and "just a prospector". That is probably the brutal truth for us all. Sadly, despite her discoveries, and larger than life; life,,,she died penniless and landed in an unmarked grave.
Perhaps that is fitting. Every headstone I have seen has a birthdate and death date with only a dash in between. That dash is that person's entire life, and represented by a simple symbol. I hope Canadian Schools teach their kids about Kate Rice...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Rice
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