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Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for thirteen years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker. Unable to marry the black woman he loved,...
2) The explorer King: adventure, science, and the great diamond hoax : Clarence King in the Old West
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[2006]
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Clarence King was a scientist-explorer who uncovered one of the greatest frauds of the nineteenth century, the Great Diamond Hoax.
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