As the ice on the Chena River broke up one year around 1913, it damaged the riverboat Florence S. in its moorings near Fairbanks. Captain E.J. Smythe dismantled the damaged boat, and salvaged the wood to remodel the home of his former partners' abandoned wife.
Smythe continued to care for Katherine Hensley for almost 20 years. This caused rumors about the Captain and Kitty's relationship. Some still think of her as a "kept woman" and Smythe, nicknamed "Cap," as her "lover."
Cap maintained his devotion to Kitty for the rest of her life, perhaps out of concern as a single older woman in the far north.
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