Samuel Franklin Emmons
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.
- A Map on a Desk…rged from his hammer blows. He had not found, and had no reason to expect, the geological structures that could produce or retain diamonds. Samuel Franklin Emmons entered without knocking, a habit King tolerated because Emmons was the only member of the survey whose geological intuition matched his ow…
- The Government’s Parallel Track…, notebook open, pencil ready. He watched the mercury settle, recorded the reading, then walked fifty measured paces to where his assistant Samuel Franklin Emmons crouched at an outcrop of crumbling shale. Emmons had his hammer raised. The sound of steel on stone cracked across the empty valley and di…
- A Whisper in Washington…who knew his expertise and wanted his assessment. The location, when he pinned it against his own maps, fell within the area his assistant Samuel Franklin Emmons had surveyed in 1869—a region of sandstone and shale, of mesas carved by erosion into forms that resembled ruins, of geological youth measu…