CHAPTER XXI 

 THE LONE BULL OF SANDY LAKE 



IT'S a remarkable cluster of lakes that encircles a 

 group of mountains in the region of the Bear River 

 most of them snow-clad with short stretches of run- 

 ning water pouring down between the rugged eleva- 

 tions, and thus connecting the lakes in a formation re- 

 sembling the shape of an egg. 



Bear Lake forms the small end, while Isaac's Lake, 

 forty miles long, bounds the territory on the north, with 

 Swan Lake, Little Lake, Three-Mile Lake, Spectacle 

 Lake, Sandy Lake and Long Lake and one or two more 

 completing the semicircle. The distance from Bear 

 Lake to the outlet of Indian Point Lake, into the lower 

 Bear River, is, roughly speaking, one hundred and fifty 

 miles. 



Our guide, Kibbee, controls the trapping rights, by 

 purchase mostly, of this big patch of mountains, lake 

 waters and running streams, with the exception of 

 Isaac's Lake, where an old Scotchman by the name of 

 Kenneth McCloud claims possession. McCloud is now 

 eighty-four years old, and is the only human being on 

 Isaac's Lake. 



He has become feeble and does not bring out the 



