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A hole in the ground with a liar at the top : fraud and deceit in the golden age of American mining

Title: A hole in the ground with a liar at the top : fraud and deceit in the golden age of American mining / by Dan Plazak.
Author: Plazak, Dan, 1951-
Publication: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2006.

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Description

374 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361) and index.

Contents

Introduction to mining fraud -- The imaginary mine of Doctor Gardiner -- The Comstock: mother lode of American mining swindles -- Snow job at the Emma mine -- A brief history of diamond-mining frauds in America -- Tin men -- Professor Samuel Aughey: "a first-class charlatan" -- Swindle in South Park -- Leadville: a Comstock in the Colorado Rockies -- Tichenor's gold: Calistoga natural springwater -- Richard Flower: master swindler -- Thomas Lawson: champion of the people -- Aron Beam and his gold process -- Golden sands of the Adirondacks -- Mining gold from the sea -- The spoilers -- Whitaker Wright's house of cards -- George Graham Rice's adventures with your money -- Death Valley Scotty: the showman as mine swindler -- The literary life: Julian Hawthorne, mining swindler -- Selling the pure blue sky.

ISBN

0874808405
9780874808407

LCCN

2005029913
9780874808407

OCLC

ocm62172639
62172639
SCSB-1383899

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library