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Show FALL 2013 UHQ pp 304-385_UHQ Stories/pp.4-68 9/16/13 1:25 PM Page 307 UTAh STATE hISTOrICAL SOCIETy WILLIAM GLASMANN On March 10, 1890, an advertisement Buffalo Park, where Glasmann appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune for platted pursued a real estate venture. property known as Garfield City, with Glasmann sold his herd to a William Glasmann listed as the general Davis County rancher who agent.8 The advertisement emphasized three transported the animals to reasons why Garfield City boasted the only Antelope Island on platforms. site on the Great Salt Lake capable of development: the property was high and dry; Glasmann promised fast-growing trees, shrubbery, and vegetation; and plenty of pure water existed for irrigation and culinary purposes. The advertisement further promised that five thousand trees would be planted in 1890 and, curiously, made a reference to buffalo. When Lynch and Glasmann began acquiring the Clinton property in Lake Point in 1889, Glassman had a quixotic idea inspired by a trip to Texas to visit friends. While in Texas, he met Charles Jesse “Buffalo” Jones of Kansas, who owned private herds of bison in Texas, Kansas, and Manitoba.9 With expenses mounting, Jones decided to sell parts of his herd. Impulsively, Glasmann put a payment down on some bison and told Jones he planned to hire him to manage the Utah Buffalo and Zoological Gardens. He had become enamored with the idea of having a bison herd as an attraction in Garfield City. The plan fit the tenor of the times; at the height of the real estate boom, developers often cooked up hairbrained 8 “Garfield City on Great Salt Lake!” Salt Lake Tribune, March 10, 1890. Hal Schindler, “Antelope Island Is Bison Home On Range,” Salt Lake Tribune, November 14, 1993, http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/111493.html. 9 307 |
