Favorite Historical Prospector

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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
 

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Does Yukon Cornelius count??!!!
 

I'm a big fan of Gus Chiggins.
 

LMAO Gus Chiggins has my vote!
 

My 3GGrandfather George Lord. Reached the Bear River above Colfax CA Sept 8th 1849 and moved around until Feb 1850 when he found 7.5 lbs in one day near Downieville. Wisely he did not go to town and drink it up but returned to Iowa sold the farm, married a 21 year old girl 30 years his junior and returned to California where he enjoyed growing grapes and the California weather until he was 98.

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Easy...Yosemite Sam

 

Jacob Waltz. :coffee2:
 

George Andrew Jackson- the first US guy to commercially mine placer gold in Colorado.
 

Tom Wait in the movie "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"

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