Oligocene Bishop Conglomerate - The Rocks of Utah

This is the story of the Oligocene Bishop Conglomerate. A rock layer that hides a 150-year old mystery involving the great diamond discovery of 1872 - one of the great treasure stories of the American West!
To read more about this story….
Books:
“Diamonds in the Salt” by Bruce A. Woodard, published in 1966 is a classic.
“Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line” by Martha A. Sandweiss. Details the story of Clarence King and Ada Copeland.
“The Great Diamond Hoax” by Asbury Harpending himself. Don’t believe all he writes!
“The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872: The History of 19th Century America's Most Notorious Fraud” short overview.
“The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West” by Robert Wilson.
Articles:
“The Great California Diamond Mines, A true story” by Allen D. Wilson in Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine 1904.
“Site of the Diamond Swindle of 1872” by Peter Farquhar in California Historical Society Quarterly 1963.
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