The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents In The Life Of Asbury Harpending
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The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents In The Life Of Asbury Harpending
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Author : Asbury Harpending
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01
The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents In The Life Of Asbury Harpending written by Asbury Harpending and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with History categories.
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The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents In The Life Of Asbury Harpending
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Author : Asbury Harpending
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents In The Life Of Asbury Harpending written by Asbury Harpending and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. Two Men Block Plan To Run New Montgomery Street To The Bay; One Asks Coin, Other PreFers Fight. Promoters Appeal to Legislature and Do Not Neglect Precaution of First "Seeing" Vote Brokers. When Ralston and I opened New Montgomery street we never doubted that its manifest importance would compel an immediate and voluntary extension to the natural terminus of the water-front and prove the logical outlet for congested trade. That this would have been the case had the majority of property owners been able to follow our example, I have no reasonable doubt. But just as in the case of "Montgomery Street Straight," special interests and selfish considerations stood in the way. Less than half a dozen property owners, to their irreparable disadvantage, blocked "Montgomery Straight"--a project that would have changed the whole course of the city's progress and development. Just two property owners prevented the immediate extension of New Montgomery street to the bay, and again the failure was the city's heavy loss. These two men were Milton S. Latham and John Parrott. Latham owned a stately home and large grounds on Folsom street, directly in the line of the new thoroughfare. It was a matter of no small personal pride, and doubtless he was attached to the locality. He asked such a fabulous price for the right-of-way, which of course would have destroyed the home value of the property, that even Ralston and myself, who were accustomed to brush any minor obstacles out of our way without counting costs, stood aghast. John Parrott, on the other hand, wouldn't trade at all. His business hours were then strictly limited from 9 to half-past 10, and every time we managed to secure an interview, all the satisfaction we could get out of him was...
The Great Diamond Hoax
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Author : Asbury Harpending
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-10
The Great Diamond Hoax written by Asbury Harpending and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
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The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents In The Life Of Asbury Harpending Scholar S Choice Edition
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Author : Asbury Harpending
language : en
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
Release Date : 2015-02-18
The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents In The Life Of Asbury Harpending Scholar S Choice Edition written by Asbury Harpending and has been published by Scholar's Choice this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-18 with categories.
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The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents
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Author : James H. Wilkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-16
The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents written by James H. Wilkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Excerpt from The Great Diamond Hoax and Other Stirring Incidents: In the Life of Asbury Harpending The Great Diamond Hoax and Other Stirring Incidents: In the Life of Asbury Harpending was written by James H. Wilkins in 1913. This is a 280 page book, containing 56767 words and 11 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents In The Life Of A Harpending Edited By James H Wilkins With A Foreword By Glen Dawson New Edition With Portraits
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Author : Asbury Harpending
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Great Diamond Hoax And Other Stirring Incidents In The Life Of A Harpending Edited By James H Wilkins With A Foreword By Glen Dawson New Edition With Portraits written by Asbury Harpending and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
A Century Of Swindles
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Author : Railey Jane Savage
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-09-01
A Century Of Swindles written by Railey Jane Savage and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-01 with True Crime categories.
From the Gilded Age through WWII, America was rife with ne’er-do-wells on a never-ending search for the next big score. Between 1850 and 1950 lawlessness melded with ingenuity, fueled by optimism and ruthlessness: America was dangerous, buzzing, and where opportunity came to take flight. The perfect conditions for swindlers. The gall and gumption of their hustles strain credulity. Fake diamond fields? War with Canada? Sir Francis Drake’s unclaimed fortune? Apparently, all was fair in the quest for something-for-nothing. The scammers in this volume range from the undeniably unscrupulous, to the ill and ill-advised. Fans of clever schemes and schadenfreude alike will be entertained by these tales of the rise and fall of some of America’s greatest swindlers.
Thomas Varker Keam
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Author : Laura Graves
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2016-11-18
Thomas Varker Keam written by Laura Graves and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thomas Varker Keam owned and operated a trading post in Keams Canyon, Arizona Territory, from 1874 to 1902. He was the first trader to develop American Indian arts and crafts as part of his business and the first to suggest that Native artists modify their techniques to increase sales. Keam had a major impact on the evolution of Hopi pottery. Involved in early archaeological work in the Southwest, Keam was the first trader to develop lucrative contacts with museum curators and anthropologists. He sold enormous collections to the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum, and the Peabody Museum, as well as several European institutions. An advocate for the Indians, Keam represented the Hopis and Navajos in confrontations with the U.S. government over “civilizing” programs between 1869 and 1902, when the Indians tried to maintain their political and cultural independence. Thomas Varker Keam revised Indian trading so that he and American Indian artists profited.
Hornswogglers Fourflushers Snake Oil Salesmen
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Author : Matthew P. Mayo
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-08-04
Hornswogglers Fourflushers Snake Oil Salesmen written by Matthew P. Mayo and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with History categories.
Everyone loves a heel, especially one to whom nothing was sacred and who charmed his or her way into the hearts, minds, and wallets of bumpkins and belles alike. This collection offers twenty-four tales of petty bandits, sleazy bunko artists, and conniving conmen and –women who traveled West to seek their fortunes by preying on the men and women who went before them to settle and explore. These stories of who they were, what they did, and why they are remembered for their deeds include ample and engaging historic illustrations of the shady characters at work and at play.
The Explorer King
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Author : Robert Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-10-31
The Explorer King written by Robert Wilson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this, one of the year's most compelling biographies, Robert Wilson paints a brilliant portrait of Clarence King -- a scientist-explorer whose mountain-scaling, desert-crossing, river-fording, blizzard-surviving adventures helped create the new West of the nineteenth century. A sort of Howard Hughes of the 1800s, Clarence King in his youth was an icon of the new America: a man of both action and intellect, who combined science and adventure with romanticism and charm. The Explorer King vividly depicts King's amazing feats and also uncovers the reasons for the shocking decline he suffered after his days on the American frontier. The Yale-educated King went west in 1863 at age twenty-one as a geologist-explorer. During the next decade he scaled the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada, published a popular book now considered a classic of adventure literature, initiated a groundbreaking land survey of the American West, and ultimately uncovered one of the greatest frauds of the century -- the Great Diamond Hoax, a discovery that made him an international celebrity at a time when they were few and far between. Through King's own rollicking tales, some true, some embroidered, of scaling previously unclimbed mountain peaks, of surviving a monster blizzard near Yosemite, of escaping ambush and capture by Indians, of being chased on horseback for two days by angry bandits, Robert Wilson offers a powerful combination of adventure, history, and nature writing. He also provides the bigger picture of the West at this time, showing the ways in which the terrain of the western United States was measured and charted and mastered, and how science, politics, and business began to intersect and influence one another during this era. Ultimately, King himself would come to symbolize the collision of science and business, possibly the source of his downfall. Fascinating and extensive, The Explorer King movingly portrays the America of the nineteenth century and the man who -- for better or worse -- typified the soul of the era.