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Film, Video The Explorer King: Adventure, Science and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West

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Title

  • The Explorer King: Adventure, Science and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West

Summary

  • Robert Wilson discussed his new biography, "The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West," in a program sponsored by the Center for the Book. "The Explorer King" (Scribner, 2006) examines the life of Yale-educated Clarence King, who helped create the new American West of the 19th century. King went west in 1863 at age 21 as a geologist-explorer. During the next decade, he scaled the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada; published a popular book, "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada," now considered a classic of adventure literature; and initiated a major land survey of the American West. In 1872 King uncovered one of the greatest financial frauds of the century, The Great Diamond Hoax, in which claims of a diamond field in Wyoming turned out to be bogus.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Center for the Book, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2006-02-08.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Robert Wilson.
  • -  Recorded on 2006-02-08.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687739

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. The Explorer King: Adventure, Science and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-08, 2006. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687739/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. (2006) The Explorer King: Adventure, Science and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-08. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687739/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. The Explorer King: Adventure, Science and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-08, 2006. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687739/>.