The Chinese And The Iron Road Building The Transcontinental Railroad
Author: Gordon H. Chang (Editor); Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Editor)
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: Gordon H. Chang (Editor); Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Editor)
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Description
This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad-but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.