same name

[bamagirl]

what's in a name? from his name, we have a peak, a creek, a county and a volcanic national park. ca someone please name him....

[chaff]

LASSEN-There is Lassen Peak, Lassen Creek, Lassen Butte, and Lassen View. ... All are located in Plumas County, except for Lassen Creek, which is in Modoc County,I think California-could be wrong but US pacific northwest. Peter Lassen was a Danish-born immigrant who arrived in America in 1831, and nine years later he trekked to the northwest over the Oregon Trail. He wound up in California in 1840 by taking a boat from the Oregon coast to Fort Ross. He plied his trade for a while as a blacksmith at Sutter's Fort. In 1843, with Sutter's help, he secured a 26,000-acre grant of land from Mexican Gov. Micheltorena for a rancho in the upper Sacramento Valley. It was called Rancho Los Bosquejo, or the "ranch of the wooded places." Here he established a trading post at what is now Vina, about 18 miles south of Red Bluff. It was the western terminus of his trail, and the place where he installed a trading post to cater to the starved and exhausted pioneers who reached it. Lassen had ambitions similar to those of John Sutter; he wanted to develop an inland empire of which he would be lord. As a landowner Lassen suffered a fate similar to Sutter's. He developed part of his land for a vineyard, and he grew cotton and wheat. He was on the brink of success as a landowner when James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma. Not long after the news reached them, Lassen's workers and the settlers who were dependent upon him deserted his barony to prospect for gold in the foothills. After the Gold Rush Lassen was murdered while prospecting for silver.

[toughride]

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