Seymour Lewis Miller. Courtesy of the editors.
Seymour Miller's Account of an Early Sheep Operation on Fremont Island EDITED BY DAVID H. MILLER AND ANNE M. ECKMAN
I N MAY 1944 SEYMOUR MILLER, AGE SEVENTY-THREE, DICTATED the
following account of the Miller family sheep operation on Fremont Island in the Great Salt Lake to his nephew, Utah historian David E. Miller.^ Because of the constraints of its peculiar geography, the Millers' sheep-ranching enterprise was undoubtedly one of the more Dr. Miller is dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma. Mrs. Eckman is a school teacher at Farmington Elementary School. ' T h e original notarized typescript appears as an appendix in David E. Miller, " T h e Great Salt Lake: Its History and Economic Development" (Ph.D. diss.. University of Southern California, 1947).