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Clapper Creek is the location where [[Peter Lassen]] and Edward Clapper were murdered in 1859.<ref> Asa Merrill Fairfield, "[http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:839551 Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California]," p. 173</ref><ref>Santa Cruz Sentinel, "[http://www.newspapers.com/clip/3868233/lassen_edward_clapper/ Skeleton May Be Lassen's Partner]," February 17, 1992, p. 10.</ref>
Clapper Creek is the location where [[Peter Lassen]] and Edward Clapper were murdered in 1859.<ref> Asa Merrill Fairfield, "[http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:839551 Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California]," p. 173</ref><ref>Santa Cruz Sentinel, "[http://www.newspapers.com/clip/3868233/lassen_edward_clapper/ Skeleton May Be Lassen's Partner]," February 17, 1992, p. 10.</ref>
 
Fairfield (p. 171) writes:
 
"At the Black Rock range they camped one evening beside a small stream ever since known as Clapper creek. The camp was in a nook of the canyon overlooked by high bluffs on three sides There was a little feed for the horses and the place was a very pleasant if in those times dangerous location for a camp."
 
== Remote Resources ==
== Remote Resources ==
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:839551 GNIS]
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:839551 GNIS]

Revision as of 05:13, 29 March 2016

Clapper Creek is the location where Peter Lassen and Edward Clapper were murdered in 1859.[1][2]

Fairfield (p. 171) writes:

"At the Black Rock range they camped one evening beside a small stream ever since known as Clapper creek. The camp was in a nook of the canyon overlooked by high bluffs on three sides There was a little feed for the horses and the place was a very pleasant if in those times dangerous location for a camp."

Remote Resources

References

  1. Asa Merrill Fairfield, "Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California," p. 173
  2. Santa Cruz Sentinel, "Skeleton May Be Lassen's Partner," February 17, 1992, p. 10.

Articles about locations in Humboldt County.

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