Philip Arnold
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 Prospector’s Secret…and cutting glass. To untrained eyes, they appeared as dull as gravel, as unpromising as the slag heaps outside the mining towns of Nevada. Philip Arnold lifted the first stone to the light. He was forty-three years old, his body thickened by two decades of pick work and drilling, his face ma…
- The Gemologist’s Seal…ling them at enormous profit when stability returned. His name had become, by deliberate construction, synonymous with authenticity itself. Philip Arnold and John Slack entered this precinct as intruders in a drama not their own. They wore the clothes of their assumed identities: rough woolen…
- The Engineer’s Return…and. Corporate charters were drafted, mining claims recorded, title documents prepared for transfer of the original prospectors’ interests. Philip Arnold and John Slack remained in the background of these operations, their presence required only for formal signatures that would extinguish the…