text Ghosts of Gold Mountain : the epic story of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad
- Summary
- In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad. Over the next five years, they blasted tunnels through the granite cliffs of the Sierra Nevada ... Read more
- Contents
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Guangdong -- Gold Mountain -- Central Pacific -- Foothills -- The High Sierra -- The Summit -- The strike -- Truckee -- The Golden Spike -- Beyond Promontory.
- Format
- text
- Description
- 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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| Peninsula Community Library | 331.6 CHA in Adult | Available |
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Central Pacific Railroad Company Employees History
Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Railroad construction workers West (U.S.) History 19th century
Foreign workers, Chinese West (U.S.) History 19th century
China Emigration and immigration History 19th century
Chinese West (U.S.) History 19th century
West (U.S.) History 19th century
Chinese
Emigration and immigration
Employees
Foreign workers, Chinese
Railroad construction workers
China
United States, West
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