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The Incident at Bitter Creek: The Story of the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre [Hardcover]

Craig Storti (Author)

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Hardcover: 193 pages
Publisher: Iowa State Press; 1st edition (December 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813814030
ISBN-13: 978-0813814032
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,359,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The saga of the Chinese in America took a dramatic turn on July 1, 1862, when Congress passed "an act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific." Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coal department, operating men, pit cars, government directors, white miners, coal camps, mine superintendent

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Rock Springs, Green River, Union Pacific, San Francisco, Bitter Creek, Knights of Labor, The Sweetwater County Historical Museum, Hong Kong, Salt Lake, United States, Governor Warren, New York, Jay Gould, General Howard, Governor Thayer, Number Six, Central Pacific, Sierra Nevada, Beckwith Quinn, Black Hills, Charles Adams, Grass Creek, High Plains, Mine Number Three, Washington Territory

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This book cites 29 books:

The United States (International Library of Politics and Comparative Government) by Alan Ware in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Chinese Immigration by Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Coolidge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
History of Wyoming (Second Edition) by T. A. Larson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific (The Railroads) by Oscar Lewis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Wind River by Charles G. West on page 35, and page 48

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Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion ACT by Andrew Gyory in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Hometown Chinatown: A History of Oakland's Chinese Community, 1852-1995 (Studies in Asian Americans) by Eva Armentrout Ma on page 55, and Back Matter
The Traitor: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1885 by Laurence Yep in Back Matter
The Traitor: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1885 by Laurence Yep on page 304
The Oxford History of the American West by Clyde A. Milner II on page 424

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