Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton ... There were Native American snipers, raids, livestock rustlings, scalpings, and burnings all along the railroad right ...

"We have proved their value as laborers & everybody is trying Chinese & now we can't get them," Crocker wrote. His brother Charles, the project's contractor, raised the workers' monthly wages four ...

Chicago World's Fair, "Rattlesnake King" Clark Stanley took the stage to promote his miracle product, "Stanley's Snake Oil." ...

The Chinese railroad workers’ story also has a page in Palo ... Workers died from falls, landslides, Native American raids, blasting accidents and disease. Yet, the Chinese laborers performed ...

which preserves a stretch of the railroad and the spot where the last spike was installed. Lee — the self-described “undisputed unofficial Asian American photographer laureate” — has taken pictures of ...

When they encountered a group of Chinese workers along the railroad tracks ... been living in Evanston with his wife and children, all American-born, but he decided to take them to China, perhaps ...