Theater at 40 Miles. Yukon Territory

Photograph shows the actress Esther Lyons and another woman inserted into a scene of a group of people at a theater at 40 Mile, in the Yukon. Although Lyons wrote a series of articles about the expedition she claimed to have taken, and lectured about it for the rest of her life, later research indicated there is no evidence of her participation in the expedition and that, in fact, she could not have been on the expedition at that time.
67544 U.S. Copyright Office.
Photograph copyrighted by Esther Lyons in 1897.

Published in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, 1898.
Published in: "The Mystery of Ester Lyons, the 'Klondike Girl'," by Melanie J. Mayer, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Summer 2003, pg. 115-129.