I watched the episode on the internet, and what a story it tells. Word reaches her commanding officer that she has been performing in one of the local theatres — which would be a terrible blemish on her reputation.
Turns out that one of the dance hall denizens, a woman known as Kate Rockwell, has also been billing herself as Klondike Kate. Kate Ryan goes to the theatre and sees a scantily clad Rockwell twirling about on stage. Ryan had Rockwell arrested a few months before and Rockwell had spent a month in jail at hard labour.
Although Rockwell refuses to stop billing herself as Klondike Kate, Ryan is able to clear her reputation with her superior officer and is saved from disgrace.
The episode concludes by stating that over the years, the name Klondike Kate becomes associated not with the courageous police woman, but with the more scandalous women of the frontier. In closing the piece, Mysteries at the Museum alludes to a film from the s titled Klondike Kate as the final legacy. At least the television program got that part right — almost. But Matt Falber is no historian; his account is highly coloured, and factually inaccurate.
According to Yukon legend, it may have been Kate herself who, while she was washing dishes in a stream, first noticed the mineral gleam that would send the Northwest into a frenzy. Related: Female prospectors in the California, Klondike, and Nevada mining booms fought sexism and claim thieving to be taken seriously. The prospectors, who would shortly be joined by scores of other gold-seekers, set up shop immediately.
And yet, while they knew they were bringing in wealth beyond their wildest dreams, the gold was not easy to immediately convert into money, food or supplies. She baked bread and sewed mittens and moccasins to sell to other miners — bringing in immediate income — and used her traditional knowledge to help the group live off the land and survive what could have been a deadly first winter. After a few years, the family collected close to a million dollars in gold from their claims, launching them into a life of luxury.
Now wealthy, George and Kate Carmack travelled to Seattle, with plans to buy a yacht and sail to Paris. However, things quickly deteriorated. The couple was happily married until Matson died in , his body found frozen in a remote shack in Alaska. Rockwell married again in to a longtime friend and Bend accountant Bill Van Duren.
They retired to Sweet Home, where Rockwell died peacefully in her sleep in Morgan, Lael. Fairbanks, AK: Epicenter Press, Lucia, Ellis.
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