William S. Holt founded Great Salt Lake Park, served as the first chairman of the Great Salt Lake Authority, was a member of the State Legislature and the Davis Recreation Committee, farmed in Syracuse, and was sometimes known as “Antelope Bill.” On a hot July day in 1959, while walking near Bridger Bay and coming upon Ladyfinger, he rested in the shade behind a rock and looked east across the great expanse of the lake to the Wasatch Mountains and west to water as far as the eye could see. There he wondered why the area had been closed off so long and why the people of Davis County had not come to see it, and from the bluff above the bay he imagined hundreds of automobiles in a huge parking lot, Half Moon Bay full of bathers, their shouting and laughter, a smooth ribbon of blacktop stretching east, and a freshwater lake with a few boats gliding on it. He believed this great natural resource had been left for his generation to develop, and from that time on he held a dream and wanted to see it come to pass.