Show 196 white man set foot upon it The first account of such Indian occupation is that of Osborne Russell in the 4 Seven years later members of the "Mud Hen" exyear 1841 fore the first ploring expedition found three Indians and several ponies on the island5 Fremont it will be recalled was met by an old claimed ownership of the antelope on the island extracted pay from the explorer for all he had killed Indian and who there5 his party were apparently the first white On men to cross to Antelope Island September 18 1845 this occasion he gave the island its name Although it was later commonly called Church Island (and still is by many Fremont and in the vicinity) the name Fremont gave it has become After Fremont probably the next very well established white men to visit the island were the members of the "Mud Hen" crew who made their brief survey in 1848 The first white man to live on Antelope Island was one "Daddy" Stump an old mountaineer who was there before people the Mormon Church took over built a cabin consisting uprights and a dirt roof near a fine spring also planted an orchard and a garden Peaches produced of cedar post He Stump 4 Supra p 119 5 Supra p 135 6 Supra p 129 |