Lake
Theres a nice spring in the upper Skookum Gulch area, a little south of the east end of The Bench where its water settles in a little basin like place on a little bench wlhitch forms a little lake about the size of a corral.
This has been called The Lake as far back as I can remember. This lake is located on the east end of the timber claim that once belonged to my uncle, Wm. A. Wright. This was a beautiful place before it was logged off in about 1930 and burned off a year or two later.
In early days the grizzly bears were killing quite a few cattle over the range land. This caused Robert Bruce Grieve to set a number six Newhouse trap at The Lake, and after a time got a grizzly bear in the trap, but he escaped leavings three of his toe-nails. From the size of the tracks it was a huge grizzly bear. For several years after this happening the cattlemen lost many cattle each year. Most of the kills found had the huge tracks around the remains. These tracks had three toe-nails missing from the front foot. The big grizzly soon became known as "Reelfoot," but thats another story.
George Wright descriptions