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The Chinese railroad workers’ story also has a page ... documents and news articles the Chinese laborers’ work, harrowing conditions and accomplishments. It also includes images by ...

but many found work in other trades or continued to work on railroad lines throughout the United States. And yet, rather than being appreciated for their contributions, Chinese immigrants dealt with ...

Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co director of the ...

Railroad work was hard, and management was chaotic ... Irishmen were inclined to spend their wages on liquor, and that the Chinese were also unreliable. Yet, due to the critical shortage, Crocker ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland ...

As fall approached, Chinese crews were taken ... to link their camp sites with the work sites. The bad weather held up provisions, diverted workers from railroad-building to snow-management ...