Show 119 skeletons on that island 5 and on Strong’s Knob of the U J Venner family found arrowheads on Fremont Island while making that lonely place their home during the late 1880’s6 Yhen Osborne Russell approached the lake in 1841 he found that an Indian chief’s son had "just returned from the Members largest island Antelope passed the winter upon it veyed back and forth on a square"' Mormons A few a few days previous having with his family which he had con- raft of bulrushes about twelve 'feet years later April 1848 when the first explored the same island they found three Indians Q several Indian ponies Charles Preuss Kit Carson Baptiste Bernier and Basil lajeunesse were selected to accompany Fremont on the lake expedition which Fremont called "the first ever attempted on this interior sea" It seems almost incredible that such an explorer could have been uninformed concerning the and boat trip around the lake made by Clyman Harris and two Q Even Bonneville as we have seen had heard others in 1826 of the expedition ten years earlier although he discredited 5 Alfred Lambourne Our Inland Sea 121 128 Fragment of the History of Kate Wenner Noble "A Fremont Island in Great Salt Lake" 6 Osborne Russel 8 Infra p 135 7 9 Supra p 81 3 Journal of a Trapper 122 |