LASSEN VOLCANIC
Guidebook
1940
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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary

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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Arno B. Cammerer, Director

CONTENTS

Cover (Eruption of Lassen Peak in 1915)

Geologic History
   Lassen Peak and Vicinity
   Chaos Crags and Chaos Jumbles
   Ancestral Mount Tehama
   Cinder Cone Area
View from Lassen Peak
Wildlife
Fishing
Camping
Educational Activities
Administration
How to Reach the Park
Accommodations in the Park
What to Do and See


Historic Events

1820Arguello exploring party first to record and name Lassen Peak (St. Joseph's Mountain).
1850-51Last lava flow from Cinder Cone.
1864Helen Brodt, first white woman to climb Lassen Peak, made ascent with Major Reading. Lake Helen named for her.
1906May 6. Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone National Monuments established.
1914May 30. First known eruption of Lassen Peak since coming of white man.
1915May 19 and 22. Major eruptions of Lassen Peak devastated large forest area.
1916Lassen Volcanic National Pack created by act of Congress.
1921Lassen Peak ceased to erupt and subsided into a state of quiescence.


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