HISTORIC DUCK HUNTING STORIES THE GOLDEN AGE OF DUCK HUNTING

E37 THE GREAT SALT LAKE


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the onset of the twentieth century, sport hunting exploded in Utah. Each year,
thousands of hunters made their way to camps in the GSL wetland. Utah
newspapers reported on the quality shooting that one could experience in the
marsh and remarked that caravans of wagons were transporting hunters to the
marshes.

By 1900, a newspaper reported that 2,000 duck hunters were in the marshes of the Jordan

River and Black Sloughs for opening day. The
Salt Lake Tribune, October 2, 1902 labeled the marsh “the Paradise of Duck-Dom”:
under the headlines RISE OF “DUCK-DOM.”

Most of the private

marshland around the GSL became appropriated by numerous duck clubs. Often the
land was only leased; however, in many cases the clubs owned it outright. On
the north end of the lake, a group of wealthy Denver, Chicago and East Coast
hunters incorporated the Bear River Club, merely 6,000 acres at the time. The Duckville Gun Club and many other clubs followed suit. By opening day 1906, scores of hunters “from
around the country” were arriving in Ogden by train to make their way to the
Bear River area.

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