Gold Mountain Turned to Dust

2018-11-01 History

Author : John R. Wunder
Release : 2018-11-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 396/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Gold Mountain Turned to Dust written by John R. Wunder. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination and widespread violence. This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the West—from California to Montana to New Mexico—serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West. The first two essays deal with anti-Chinese racial violence and judicial discrimination. The remainder of the book examines legal precedents and judicial doctrines derived from Chinese cases in specific western states. The Chinese, Wunder shows, used the American legal system to protect their rights and test a variety of legal doctrines, making vital contributions to the legal history of the American West.

Ghosts of Gold Mountain

2019 China

Author : Gordon H. Chang
Release : 2019
Genre : China
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 579/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Gold Mountain written by Gordon H. Chang. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.

Staking a Claim: The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung, a Chinese Miner, California, 1852

2013-11-26 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Laurence Yep
Release : 2013-11-26
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 660/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Staking a Claim: The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung, a Chinese Miner, California, 1852 written by Laurence Yep. This book was released on 2013-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep's incredible JOURNAL OF WONG MING-CHUNG is now in paperback with a stunning repackaging! In 1852, during the height of the California Gold Rush, ten-year-old Wong makes the dangerous trip to America to live with his uncle, exchanging the famine and war of his native country for brutal bullies and grueling labor in America, Wong joins his uncle and countless others in the effort to strike it rich on the great "Golden Mountain." Unfortunately, he, and most of the rest of the dreamers, soon discover that there's no such thing as a Golden Mountain, only dirt, mud, and occasionally tiny flecks of gold dust--flecks that are to be turned over to the owners of the mines, in return for barely livable wages. However, someone as clever and resourceful as Wong will have to find other ingenious ways of making money if they're going to make it in America. But can they overcome the bitter, racist white Americans to find success?

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

2009-10-20 Transportation

Author : Gary Kinder
Release : 2009-10-20
Genre : Transportation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 96X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea written by Gary Kinder. This book was released on 2009-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek

Out of the Dust

2005 Antiques & Collectibles

Author : Stephen B. Shaffer
Release : 2005
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
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Book Rating : 932/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Out of the Dust written by Stephen B. Shaffer. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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