Group Portrait on Eldorado, c1900

Group Portrait on Eldorado, c1900

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black and white view of two men and a woman posed in front of a small cabin with two dogs in front. The woman is playing the mandolin. The man at centre has been tenatively identified as Antone Stander and the woman as his wife Violet. Stander arrived in the Klondike just two weeks after the big strike on Rabbit [Bonanza] Creek. Within a year, he and his partner were millionaires. He courted Violet, a dancehall girl and they were married. They ultimately divorced and her settlement was quite large.

The location of the cabin has been identified as being on Eldorado and its location would in fact be Stander's claim.