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Title:

Chinese on the American frontier / edited by Arif Dirlik, with the assistance of Malcolm Yeung.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xxxvi, 506 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Chinese--United States.

Other Authors:

Dirlik, Arif.
Yeung, Malcolm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-490) and index.

Contents:

Introduction, Chinese in Denver : their location and occupations / Gerald E. Rudolph. After the gold rush : Chinese mining in the far West, 1850-1890 / Randall E. Rohe -- Army of Canton in the High Sierra / Alexander Saxton -- Sojourners and settlers : the Chinese experience in Arizona / Lawrence Michael Fong -- Chinese sojourners in territorial Prescott / Florence C. Lister and Robert H. Lister -- Chinese in Nevada : an historical survey, 1856-1970 / Loren B. Chan -- Virginia City's Chinese community, 1860-1880 / Russell M. Magnaghi -- Chapter 13 from Roughing It / Mark Twain -- Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun (1882) : a turning point in Chinese legal relationships in the trans-Mississippi West / John R. Wunder -- Chinese in Texas / Edward J.M. Rhoads -- Excerpts from The Chinese in Eastern Oregon, 1860-1890 / Christopher Howard Edson -- Chinese culture in the Inland Empire / Nancy K. Feichter -- Snake River massacre of Chinese miners, 1887 / David H. Stratton -- "Chinaman's chance" on the Rocky Mountain mining frontier / Liping Zhu -- Polly Bemis, legendary heroine / M. Alfreda Elsensohn -- Pierce City incident, 1885-1886 / Kenneth Owens -- Utah's Chinatowns : the development and decline of extinct ethnic enclaves / Daniel Liestman -- Pioneer Chinese of Utah / Don C. Conley -- Chinese in Gilpin County ; Chinese in Denver : their location and occupations / Gerald E. Rudolph.
Deadwood Gulch : the last Chinatown / Joe Sulentic. Chinese romance : a story of Canton, San Francisco, and Denver / Daily Denver Tribune -- Chinese emigrants in southwest Wyoming, 1868-1885 / A. Dudley Gardner -- David G. Thomas' memories of the Chinese riot / J.H. Goodnough -- Rock Springs incident / Yen Tzu-kuei -- Kwangtung to Big Sky : the Chinese in Montana, 1864-1900 / Robert R. Swartout, Jr. -- Heathen Chinee / Larry Barsness -- Boycott in Butte : organized labor and the Chinese community, 1896-1897 / Stacy A. Flaherty -- Deadwood's Chinatown / Grant K. Anderson -- Deadwood Gulch : the last Chinatown / Joe Sulentic.

Series:

Pacific formations

ISBN:

9780847685325 (alk. paper)
0847685322 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44019568

LCCN:

00034199

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)