The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872: The Fortune That Never Existed

Podcast: Yore Town · Beard Laws Studio, Bleav

Opublikowano: 2026-09-21

THE GREAT DIAMOND HOAX OF 1872 What if you traveled hundreds of miles into the American West, discovered genuine diamonds with your own hands, and still got scammed? In 1872, Philip Arnold and John Slack convinced some of California's wealthiest businessmen that they had discovered an enormous diamond field. Their evidence was convincing. They had real gemstones, a secret location, and a mining engineer who personally inspected the site. But the entire discovery was a carefully constructed fraud. The two prospectors had purchased genuine diamonds and other gemstones, buried them in remote Western...