Show 202 spent some 65 years of his life navigating exploring and During his life he probably knew more sounding lake waters man 19 other living It was he who discovered guano deposits on Gunnison Island and helped form On the island the Frarys spent part the Utah Guano Company of their time on their own homestead and part working for In 1897 Mrs Frary died and was buried on other ranchers 20 marked lone where the grave is still the island One of the interesting features of Antelope Island since the turn of the century is its herd of American Bison The island had once been the native habitat of both buffalo and antelope as attested by Osborne Russell and John C Fremont Buffalo had roamed freely in the Great Salt Lake valley and along streams flowing into the lake Peter Skene Ogden was glad to find them when in the lake vicinity in about the lake than any Expedition of 1833 killed many of them 22 lake the west of shores on Bear river and on the north These animals hovever had long since left the Salt Lake 1828 The Walker vicinity when It was arrived in 1847 early in the 1890's that the idea the 19 Brown np 20 21 Ibid "Peter Mormons was conceived "Description and History of Antelope Island" np Skene Ogden 1910 390 Quarterly XI 22 Supra p 112 Journals" Oregon Historical |