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** [http://canvocta.org/Lassenthread.html Peter Lassen and His Trail] (California-Nevada Chapter Oregon-California Trails Association)
** [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
* [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
* Frona Eunice Wait, "[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".
* Frona Eunice Wait, "[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.
* 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 "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.]
* 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

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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 Hot Spring 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.

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