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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A volcano, 3,187 m (10,457 ft) high, in the Cascade Range of northern California. It erupted intermittently from 1914 to 1921 after 200 years of dormancy.

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Examples

  • To the west she could see the barren domes of Chaos Crags and the ragged thrust of Lassen Peak.

    Firestorm Barr, Nevada 1996

  • The volcanic eruption of Lassen Peak, Cal., on October 6, 1915, taken at intervals, the first three photos five minutes apart, the fourth, ten minutes later, showing the beginning of the second cloud.

    The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • Besides Lassen Peak, whose altitude is 10,437 feet, there are others of large size and great interest close by.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • Lassen Peak is semi-active; Mount Rainier is dormant;

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • Lassen Peak, some wise men believe, is the last exhibit of activity in the dying volcanism of the Cascade Mountains.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • Lassen Peak, the last of the Cascades in active eruption, rises between the northern end of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, of which it is locally but wrongly considered a part, and the Klamath Mountains, a spur of the

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • Four months after the creation of the national park Lassen Peak ceased activity with its two hundred and twelfth eruption.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • One at least of the giant band, Lassen Peak, is semi-active to-day.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • Of course there is Lassen Peak in California -- the exception, as we say, which proves the rule.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • Because it seemed desirable to conserve the best two of these examples of recent volcanism, President Taft in 1906 created the Lassen Peak and the Cinder Cone National Monuments.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

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