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Klondike Kate Rockwell interview with Kessler Cannon of KBND radio

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Fifteen minute oral history with Klondike Kate Rockwell, famous vaudeville dancer during the Yukon Gold Rush and Bend resident between the 1920s and 1950s. Kate discusses her reputation in Bend as "Aunt Kate", her love of Oregon's High Desert region, early days in Bend, her 320 acre homestead near Brothers, entertainment for the desert homesteaders, a hospital she ran in Prineville, a nursing home she ran in Bend, the death of her previous husband in Alaska, and her new husband and their home in Sweet Home, Oregon. Interview conducted by Kessler Cannon with KBND in 1953 as part of an oral history series with the Deschutes County Pioneers. Originally broadcast on October 18, 1953. Photograph from the collection of the Deschutes County Historical Society.

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Series: 15 minute histories Publisher: Bend, Oregon : KBND, p1953 Edition: Unabridged

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  • File size: 4745 KB
  • Release date: April 11, 2016
  • Duration: 00:09:53

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  • File size: 4804 KB
  • Release date: April 11, 2016
  • Duration: 00:09:53
  • Number of parts: 1

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Fifteen minute oral history with Klondike Kate Rockwell, famous vaudeville dancer during the Yukon Gold Rush and Bend resident between the 1920s and 1950s. Kate discusses her reputation in Bend as "Aunt Kate", her love of Oregon's High Desert region, early days in Bend, her 320 acre homestead near Brothers, entertainment for the desert homesteaders, a hospital she ran in Prineville, a nursing home she ran in Bend, the death of her previous husband in Alaska, and her new husband and their home in Sweet Home, Oregon. Interview conducted by Kessler Cannon with KBND in 1953 as part of an oral history series with the Deschutes County Pioneers. Originally broadcast on October 18, 1953. Photograph from the collection of the Deschutes County Historical Society.

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