Clarence King
Books
- Diamonds in the Sand The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 and the Men Who Fooled America · Liszt Think
In 1872, two Kentucky prospectors convinced San Francisco’s elite that a remote Colorado mesa held untold riches.
- The Gemologist’s Seal…f this moment would become apparent only later, when the same institutional mechanisms that validated the fraud were deployed to expose it. Clarence King, the government geologist who would finally unravel the deception, would rely on similar chains of credential and documentation. The differ…
- A Map on a Desk…s of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, established in a converted ranch house on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, Clarence King laid a newspaper clipping beside his morning coffee and did not touch either for several minutes. The date on the paper was September 12, 1…
- The Syndicate’s Secret Agent…te asset, a tangible illusion sitting directly in the path of a government survey team. The corporate asset now sat directly in the path of Clarence King’s government survey team.