Chronicles the arrival of the Chinese during the 1850s to 1880s in California during the Gold Rush period and their subsequent settlement in the Western states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Includes the history of their labor, community building and activism for justice and equality in the courts of mid-19th century America.

Ancestors in the Americas: Chinese in the Frontier West, An American Story

Ding, Loni

Center for Educational Telecommunications

1998

2004.200.006