Clarence King

b. Newport, RI, January 6, 1842
d. Phoenix, AZ, December 24, 1901


Bibliography

"Deaths," Newport Mercury, 16 September 1848. 

"Clarence King Dead," Newport Daily News, 26 December 1901. 

"Clarence King:  The Boy and the Man," Newport Daily News, 26 December 1901. 

Crosby, Harry H. "The Great Diamond Fraud," American Heritage 7, no. 2 (February 1956): 58-63, 100. 

Debus, Allen. ed. Who’s Who in Science. Chicago: The A.N. Marquis Company, 1968. 934 (King, Clarence). 

Kane, Joseph Nathan. Famous First Facts. 4th ed. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981. 282,283(Geological Survey Director [U.S.]). 

Hopkins, G.M., City Atlas of Newport, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, 1876. Plate E. 

King, Clarence. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. 4th ed. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. 

Merrill, George P.  "King, Clarence" in Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 10 New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. 384-386. 

Raymond, Rossiter W., "Bibliographical Notice," Clarence King Memoirs: The Helmet of Mambrino.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 303-374. 

Simister, Florence Parker. Streets of the City: an anecdotal history of newport, rhode island. Providence: the mowbray company - publishers, 1969. 125,126. 

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 13 New York: James T. White & Company, 1906, 248,249. 

Wilkins, Thurman. Clarence King. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. 

Young, Bob and Jan Young. Frontier Scientist: Clarence King. New York: Julian Messner, 1968. 

Images from

Wilkins, Thurman. Clarence King. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. 


Links

1) The Teneiya Gallery's page on Mount Clarence King


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