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In the 1840's, Peter Lassen promoted the [[Applegate-Lassen Trail]] that led from the current day Rye Patch Reservoir to [[Rabbit Hole Spring]] and then to the [[Black Rock Springs]] and then on to his ranch in northern California. The route led pioneers many miles out of their way. There was very little water at Rabbit Hole and no water from Rabbit Hole to Black Rock Springs.  Lassen and Edward Clapper were murdered in 1859 in the Black Rock Range.
Peter Lassen, California naturalist, 1800-59


To learn more about Peter Lassen write to:  
The Oregon-California Trails Association places the [[Peter Lassen|Lassen]]-Clapper murder site at T38N R26E S7 NE1/4,<ref>"Graves and Sites on the Oregon and California Trails," Randy Brown and Reg Duffin, 1989.</ref> ([https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Lassen-Clapper&params=41_12_38.11_N_119_3_2.28_W_region:US-NV_source:GNIS 41°12'38.11"N 119° 3'2.28"W]).  Note that the grave site is '''not''' on [[Clapper Creek]]<ref>[https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/839551 Clapper Creek]</ref>, it is in a small canyon south of Clapper Creek.
Lassen Loomis Museum Association
P. O. Box 100
Mineral, CA 96003


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http://canvocta.org/Lassenthread.html canvocta.org/Lassenthread.html -- OCTA CA-NV Chapter Trails History 101 - The Peter Lassen Thread
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Peter Lassen and His Trail
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In 1848, leading a small wagon train, Peter Lassen took the Applegate Trail that branched off the Humboldt route at later Lassen Meadows (modern Rye Patch Reservoir) and continued through the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon of northwest Nevada. At Fandango Pass near the northeast corner of California the Applegate Trail continued west around Goose Lake and then northwest into Oregon while Lassen's Trail turned southwest and followed the Pit River. It ended at the present town of Vina on the Sacramento River, the site of Lassen's Rancho.
= External References =
The Peter Lassen Thread on the OCTA-sponsored Yahoo Overland_Trails Discussion List began on November 11, 2005 when Wendell Huffman asked the question "What did Lassen know when he turned north on the Applegate Trail in 1848?"
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lassen Peter Lassen] (Wikipedia)
* [http://www.cagenweb.com/lassen/his.htm#lassen Peter Lassen] (Lassen County, California Genweb Project)
* Asa Merrill Fairfield, "Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California: Containing ...," p [http://books.google.com/books?id=NRcVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA44&ots=P_KLf-qFDt&dq=%22Ladue%20Vary%22&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q=Death%20of%20Lassen&f=false 171] (1916) "Death of Lassen". (Full text from [http://archive.org/details/fairfieldspionee01fair Archive.org].)
* [http://www.citlink.net/~lahontan/archivelinks/CemLassengrave.htm Lassen Monument (Honey Lake)] (Lahontan Images)
* [http://www.octa-trails.org/learn/people_places/site_lassen_clapper.php Lassen-Clapper Attack ] (Oregon-California Trails Association) - Description of how to get to the murder site
** [http://canvocta.org/Lassenthread.html Peter Lassen and His Trail] (California-Nevada Chapter Oregon-California Trails Association)
* [http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1260~110042:DeGroot-s-Map-Of-Nevada-Territory-E DeGroot's 1863 map] (David Rumsey) - Shows the location of Lassen's Grave on a map from 1863
* San Francisco Chronicle, "[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106139939/peter-lassens-death/# Peter Lassen's Death: An Authentic Story of His Murder]," December 3, 1893, p. 1. Reprinted in [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=FRB18931214.1.1&srpos=2&e=------189-en--20--1--txt-txIN-Peter+Lassen%27s+Death-------1 Feather River Bulletin, December 14, 1893]
* Frona Eunice Wait Colburn, "[http://archive.org/stream/kingshipofmtlass00wait The kingship of Mt. Lassen, at present the only active volcano on the mainland of the United States, in the past California's greatest benefactor]", 1922. Page 44 has a reproduction of a "Portrait in Oils, Masonic Temple, San Francisco, Property of Grand Lodge" that is probably by Charles Adrian Rutherford.
* Carl Nolte, "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/08/25/MN78934.DTL&type=printable Deadly Tourist Trap - Lassen's phony shortcut lured travelers into desert]," San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 1998.
* Franklin D. Scott, "[http://www.jstor.org/stable/41170933 Peter Lassen: Danish Pioneer of California]," p113-136, Southern California Quarterly Vol. 63, No. 2, Summer 1981.
** Images are from the Huntington Library.  Two images are by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goldsborough_Bruff Joseph Goldsborough Bruff]
* Georgia Willis Read, "[http://archive.org/details/goldrushjournals00bruf Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings and Other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff , 1849-1851]"
* Farriss & Smith "[http://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00faririch Illustrated History of PLUMAS, LASSEN & SIERRA Counties with CALIFORNIA from 1513 to 1850]," 1882, San Francisco.
** Images: [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/history/plumas/Photos/page-056-lassen-peter.jpg Portrait of Peter Lassen (p 56)], [http://www.sierracollege.edu/ejournals/jsnhb/v2n2/trails-Lassen.html similar image]. 
* [http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4s20100d/ The Pictorial News Letter Of California For The Steamer John L. Stephens, April 5, 1858 No.2. -- San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield -- Charles F. Robbins, Printer -- Wood engraving; 14 x 12 cm. -- Portrait of Peter Lassen the Old Pioneer and Mountaineer, in Honor of Whom Lassen's Butte and Big Meadows, were named--From a Photograph by R. H. Vance.]
* Roger R. Olmsted, "[http://archive.org/details/scenesofwondercu00olmsrich Scenes of wonder & curiosity from Hutchings' California magazine, 1856-1861]," image on p 386.
* Image: Eastman Collection, "[http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9290086w/ Peter Lassen,]" Group 90, P-0230, UC Davis.
* Image: Eastman Collection, "[http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8779p17c/ Peter Lassen,]" Group 89, P-0104, UC Davis.  Possibly drawn by Bruff.
* "[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/view/chs-m19752.html Portrait of Peter Lassen]," USC Library.
* "[https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Legendary_Truths/OiWcMQEACAAJ?hl=en Legendary Truths: Peter Lassen & His Gold Rush Trail in Fact & Fable]," Ken Johnston , 2012
* "[https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Lassen_His_Life_and_Legacy/clUYMQAACAAJ?hl=en Lassen: His life and Legacy]," Swartzlow, R.J., 90 pages, 1964, Loomis Museum Association.
* "[https://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/hutchings_california_magazine/36.pdf Death of Peter Lassen]," Hutchings' California Magazine, June 1859, pages 566-567, number 32.


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[[Category:1850s deaths]]
http://www.cagenweb.com/lassen/his.htm#Pete www.cagenweb.com/lassen/his.htm#Pete -- Lassen County GenWeb, Lassen County California History; 
[[Category:Deaths by violence]]
 
[[Category:Biographies]]
Peter Lassen, by Lassen County historian, Tim I. Purdy.  "Peter Lassen was born on October 31, 1800, at Farum, Denmark, a small village located fifteen miles from Copenhagen. ...  In the fall of 1858, news circulated of the silver discovery in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.  In the spring of 1859, Lassen organized a prospecting party.  It was divided into two groups, one led by Captain W William Weatherlow and the other by Lassen—that group consisted of Lassen, Edward Clapper and Lemericus Wyatt.  The two groups were to meet at the Black Rock Canyon.  Lassen and Company arrived first and remained to wait for Weatherlow’s party—a fatal mistake. On the morning on April 26, 1859, Lassen’s camp was awakened by a gunshot, a fatal one, striking the head of Clapper.  Lassen was killed by the second shot.  Wyatt escaped and rode horseback 124 miles to Susanville to safety and to relay the tragic event.  Who murdered Clapper and Lassen is a question still pondered to this day.  Wyatt stated that they had been attacked by Indians.  However, many historians are skeptical about Wyatt’s story and speculate that he murdered his comrades.
[[Category:Wikipedia articles]]
 
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http://home13.inet.tele.dk/bja/hvem_var_peter_lassen.htm home13.inet.tele.dk/bja/hvem_var_peter_lassen.htm -- HVEM VAR PETER LASSEN
 
Og det skete i det herrens år.....1800 at en lille dreng blev født! Hans far hed Lars Nielsen. Dengang tog man det ikke så nøje med hvad man hed som efternavn, man brugte meget det at kalde sønnen farens fornavn og søn bagefter og sådanne kom den lille dreng til at hedde Larssøn til fornavn blev han kaldt Peter. Dette blev så til Peter Larssøn eller Peter Larssen for så senere at kalde sig Peter Lassen. Datiden så med mindre respekt på navne, end nutiden hyppigt gør det endda i vor tid lægger såmænd de fleste mennesker ringe vægt på hvordan andres navne staves.
 
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http://www.citlink.net/~lahontan/archivelinks/CemLassengrave.htm www.citlink.net/~lahontan/archivelinks/CemLassengrave.htm -- Lahontan Images Presents Exploring Northeastern California History
 
Lassen Monument (Honey Lake)
 
In April 1859, Lassen was buried where he was murdered, in the Black Rock Desert. In November 1859, U. Johnson Tutt, Antone Storff, and Joe Kitts went to the Black Rock Desert to retrieve Lassen’s body. However, a number of Honey Lakers were bothered, as the party did not bring back Clapper’s body. On November 27, 1859, Lassen was reburied under the majestic Ponderosa pine tree where he camped the first night he stayed in the Honey Lake Valley.
 
The Territorial Enterprise reported: “The remains of Peter Lassen, the old pioneer, were buried with Masonic honors, Sunday November 27th on his own ranch at Honey Lake. The attendance upon that occasion, was a very large one for the place.” In May 1990, rock hunters in the Black Rock Desert, at Clapper Canyon, unearthed a skull and upper body portions of a skeleton. After extensive research and computer analysis, the skeleton was determined to be the remains of Edward Clapper.On May 30, 1992, a burial ceremony was held, and the internment of Clapper’s remains placed at the Lassen Monument. ...

Latest revision as of 18:34, 29 December 2022

In the 1840's, Peter Lassen promoted the Applegate-Lassen Trail that led from the current day Rye Patch Reservoir to Rabbit Hole Spring and then to the Black Rock Springs and then on to his ranch in northern California. The route led pioneers many miles out of their way. There was very little water at Rabbit Hole and no water from Rabbit Hole to Black Rock Springs. Lassen and Edward Clapper were murdered in 1859 in the Black Rock Range.

The Oregon-California Trails Association places the Lassen-Clapper murder site at T38N R26E S7 NE1/4,[1] (41°12'38.11"N 119° 3'2.28"W). Note that the grave site is not on Clapper Creek[2], it is in a small canyon south of Clapper Creek.

References

  1. ↑ "Graves and Sites on the Oregon and California Trails," Randy Brown and Reg Duffin, 1989.
  2. ↑ Clapper Creek

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External References

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