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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Rice
Kate Rice was a feisty prospector of the Canadian “new frontier” in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth century. First Nation indigenous people taught her to trap, hunt, travel with dogs and shoot. She hiked the treacherous terrain of this northern wilderness alone and learned to speak Cree. Intellectually and practically adept, she was also famously tough: a story goes that when a burly Frenchman approached her whilst sleeping in the same cabin, she picked up her axe and rifle, lay the axe down between them and warned: “just don’t touch my axe or I’ll have to shoot you.”
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