George D. Roberts
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 Syndicate Forms…an any assay, more than any verbal assurance—a currency Ralston knew how to spend. He rang for his clerk and sent for Asbury Harpending and George D. Roberts. They arrived within the hour, Harpending first, moving with the restless energy of a man who had spent his life anticipating moments exact…
- A Whisper in WashingtonThe letter reached Washington on a morning when the Potomac ran brown with autumn rain. George D. Roberts, mining engineer, sometime speculator, a man who had spent fifteen years reading the geology of Colorado Territory with the patience of a m…
- The Engineer’s Return…suggesting the restless energy that had carried him from California mining camps to Confederate conspiracy and back to respectable finance. George D. Roberts, whose cautionary letter to New York had begun to circulate in skeptical circles, was not present. The syndicate had gathered to receive it…