Stockton, California: Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies / University of the Pacific, 1974. Hardcover first edition - An account of the life and work of this "gentleman geologist and mountaineer", Clarence King, explorer of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and First Director of USGS. Frontispiece portrait of King, illustrations by L.F. Bjorkland. Maps, notes, bibliographies of the works of King and works consulted for this monograph (#5 from the Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies). Index. 76 pp.