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3 unusual facts about Kathleen Rockwell


Kathleen Rockwell

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police held a tight leash on prospective miners and various hangers-on trying to get to the Yukon and find fortunes in gold.

Ernie Pyle has a chapter about Klondike Kate (who he calls Kate Rothrock) in his book Home Country

Kathleen Eloise Rockwell (1873–1957), best known as "Klondike Kate", and later known as Kate Rockwell Warner Matson Van Duren, gained her fame as a dancer and vaudeville star during the Klondike Gold Rush, where she met Alexander Pantages who later became a very successful vaudeville/motion picture mogul.



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