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Chang, Gordon H.

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 and laid tracks across the burning Nevada and Utah deserts. As many as twelve hundred lost their lives along the route. Those who survived would...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.6 CHA

Nnachi, Ngeri

Summary: "There is more to the history of the transcontinental than connecting the United States. Most of the workers were of Chinese descent and were treated unfairly. Learn how workers protested for better treatment"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.7 NNA

Yee, Betty G.

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YEE

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