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Clapper Creek is the location where [[Peter Lassen]] and a man with the last name of 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>
Clapper Creek is the location where [[Peter Lassen]] and Edward Clapper were murdered in 1859.<ref> Asa Merrill Fairfield, "[https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/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]
* [https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/839551 GNIS]
* [http://ims.er.usgs.gov/gda_services/download?item_id=5567556&quad=Clapper%20Creek&state=NV&grid=7.5X7.5&series=Map%20GeoPDF Clapper Creek 1:24,000]


== References ===
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Revision as of 20:34, 28 December 2021

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.