Clapper Creek

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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."

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

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.
  3. "Graves and Sites on the Oregon and California Trails," Randy Brown and Reg Duffin, 1989.
  4. Clapper Creek (GNIS)

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