Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line / Martha A. Sandweiss.

Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for thirteen yea...

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Main Author: Sandweiss, Martha A.
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Subjects:
King, Clarence, > 1842-1901.
King, Ada, > 1860-1964.
King, Clarence, > 1842-1901 > Marriage.
African Americans > Race identity > Case studies.
Passing (Identity) > United States > Case studies.
Married people > United States > Case studies.
Deception > United States > Case studies.
African American women > Biography.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
Genre:
Case studies.
Biography.
Physical Description:370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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Call Number: E185.625 .S255 2009
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