Author : Ashbury Harpending
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : Asbury Harpending
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 1913
Category : California
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"On my return to California, after an absence of many years, my attention was called, for the first time, to the fact that my name had been associated unpleasantly with the great diamond fraud that startled the financial world nearly half a century ago. Plain duty to my family name and reputation compelled me to tell the whole story of that strange incident so far as my knowledge of it extends. I sincerely trust that a candid reading of these pages will satisfy the public that I was only a dupe, along with some of the most distinguished financiers of the last generation. Concerning two of the historians who maligned me, I am without redress. They are dead. The latest author, Mr. John P. Young, repeated the accusation of his predecessors in his history of San Francisco. This gentleman has admitted that he merely copied the story of the earlier works, having no personal knowledge of events at that period, and has handsomely admitted, over his signature, that he unconsciously did me an injustice. To the diamond story I have added, at the request of friends, some of my experiences and reminiscences of California of the early days"--Preface.
Author : Asbury Harpending
Publisher :
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : James Hepburn Wilkins
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2016-05-08
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ISBN : 9781355974468
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Author : Asbury Harpending
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2013-10
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ISBN : 9781294127529
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Author : James Hepburn Wilkins
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2016-05-08
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ISBN : 9781355977056
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Author : James H. Wilkins
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781331516026
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.
Author : James H Wilkins
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781019827420
The Great Diamond Hoax is a true-crime story of greed, deception, and adventure in the American West of the mid-19th century. Written by James H. Wilkins, a journalist and historian of the early 20th century, this book chronicles the exploits of John Slack and Philip Arnold, two con men who claimed to have found a rich diamond mine in the Colorado territory. With its colorful characters, daring escapades, and unexpected twists, The Great Diamond Hoax is a thrilling and entertaining read for fans of true crime and western history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Kevin Waite
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1469663201
When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a political client of the plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white southerners defended the institution of African American chattel slavery as well as systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far beyond the region's cotton fields and sugar plantations. Slaveholders' western ambitions culminated in a coast-to-coast crisis of the Union. By 1861, the rebellion in the South inspired a series of separatist movements in the Far West. Even after the collapse of the Confederacy, the threads connecting South and West held, undermining the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognized but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.
Author : James H. Wilkins
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Page : 282 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2015-02-18
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ISBN : 9781298219183
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