Clapper Creek
Clapper Creek is the location where Peter Lassen and Edward Clapper were murdered in 1859.[1][2]
Black Rock Canyon is mentioned in a 1893 article about the death of Peter Lassen as the site of the deaths and states that after the murders the area was known as Clapper Creek.[3]
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."
Ferol Egan's chapter about the Lassen-Clapper murders is titled "An Occurrence at Black Rock Canyon".[4] Egan states that the modern name of Black Rock Canyon is Clapper Canyon.
The Oregon-California Trails Association places the Lassen-Clapper murder site at T38N R26E S7 NE1/4,[5] (41°12'38.11"N 119° 3'2.28"W). Note that the grave site is not on Clapper Creek[6], it is in a small canyon south of Clapper Creek.
References
- ↑ Asa Merrill Fairfield, "Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California," p. 173
- ↑ Santa Cruz Sentinel, "Skeleton May Be Lassen's Partner," February 17, 1992, p. 10.
- ↑ "Peter Lassen's Death," San Francisco Chronicle, December 3, 1893.
- ↑ "Sand In A Whirlwind," Ferol Egan, 2016.
- ↑ "Graves and Sites on the Oregon and California Trails," Randy Brown and Reg Duffin, 1989.
- ↑ Clapper Creek (GNIS)