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These Californian scoundrels are invariably lighthearted; crime cannot overshadow the exhilaration of the outdoor life; remorse and gloom are banished like clouds before this perennially sunny climate. They make amusement out of killing you.

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The western margin of this continent [North America] is built of a succession of mountain chains folded in broad corrugations, like waves of stone upon whose seaward base beat the mild, small breakers of the Pacific.

Clarence King

Clarence King

Clarence King

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Born: January 6, 1842

Died: December 24, 1901 (aged 59)

Bio: Clarence Rivers King was an American geologist, mountaineer, and author. He served as the first director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881. King was noted for his exploration of the Sierra Nevada.

Known for:

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1871)
Clarence King Memoirs
Mountaineering in the Kings River Country

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