The searchers, having just retrieved the bodies of the three trappers from Lava Lake, prepare them for transportation to Bend, in April 1924. Image provided/Deschutes Pioneer Gazette
BY THE TIME THE ICE over Lava Lake melted in the spring of 1924, no one had any illusions about what they would find underneath it.
Trappers Edward Nickols, Dewey Morris and Roy Wilson had disappeared from their cabin sometime around the middle of January, leaving their clothes,…
