Talk2006

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

Library Of Congress. Center For The Book

ScienceHistoryAdventure

At the Library of Congress

Clips are not offered for this film: the Library of Congress states its rights in its own words, not as a public licence, which leaves reuse unclear.

About

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.

Archive
Library of Congress, in Library of Congress: talks and concerts
Licence or status
Rights statement at the Library of Congress, as the Library of Congress states it.
Credit
Library of Congress
Language
English
Country
United States
Who can watch
The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed