Our Desert Island Home
Near Salt Lake City, Utah
This is one of the loneliest homesteads in Utah. In the eighteen nineties, a man named George Frary built a small cabin here, on the shore of an island ringed by the Great Salt Lake. He and his wife Alice raised their family in three rooms, far from any neighbor, where the buffalo roam to this day.
Some years later, Alice fell gravely ill, possibly from a burst appendix, shortly after the birth of their last child. Before she died, she asked to be buried here on the island she had called home. On a barren, east-facing hillside, a pink stone set into the ground marks her grave.
George stayed on for years afterward. The cabin, the homestead, and Alice's lonely resting place are now preserved as part of Antelope Island State Park, a window into the hard solitude of pioneer island life.
