Chinese on the American Frontier

Chinese immigrants played a dynamic role in frontier America, yet scholars of Asian America have focused for the most part only on the Pacific Coast, especially California. This reader fills that gap by collecting memoirs, documents, and historical analyses from the other Western states--from the Cascades to the Great Plains--to provide a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in nineteenth-century America.

Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Mapping the Chinese Presence on the U.S. Frontier	p. xv
Chinese on the Eastern Frontier
After the Gold Rush: Chinese Mining in the Far West, 1850-1890	p. 3
The Army of Canton in the High Sierra	p. 27
Chinese in the Southwest (Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas)
Sojourners and Settlers: The Chinese Experience in Arizona	p. 39
Chinese Sojourners in Territorial Prescott	p. 55
The Chinese in Nevada: An Historical Survey, 1856-1970	p. 85
Virginia City's Chinese Community, 1860-1880	p. 123
Chapter 13 from Roughing It	p. 149
Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun (1882): A Turning Point in Chinese Legal Relationships in the Trans-Mississippi West	p. 153
The Chinese in Texas	p. 165
Chinese in the Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho)
Excerpts from The Chinese in Eastern Oregon, 1860-1890	p. 185
Chinese Culture in the Inland Empire	p. 199
The Snake River Massacre of Chinese Miners, 1887	p. 215
"A Chinaman's Chance" on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier	p. 231
Polly Bemis, Legendary Heroine	p. 253
Pierce City Incident, 1885-1886	p. 259
Chinese in the Rocky Mountains (Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota)
Utah's Chinatowns: The Development and Decline of Extinct Ethnic Enclaves	p. 269
The Pioneer Chinese of Utah	p. 291
The Chinese in Gilpin County	p. 307
The Chinese in Denver: Their Location and Occupations	p. 315
Denver's Anti-Chinese Riot, 1880	p. 323
A Chinese Romance: A Story of Canton, San Francisco, and Denver	p. 337
Chinese Emigrants in Southwest Wyoming, 1868-1885	p. 341
David G. Thomas' Memories of the Chinese Riot	p. 349
Rock Springs Incident	p. 355
Kwangtung to Big Sky: The Chinese in Montana, 1864-1900	p. 367
The Heathen Chinee	p. 383
Boycott in Butte: Organized Labor and the Chinese Community, 1896-1897	p. 393
Deadwood's Chinatown	p. 415
Deadwood Gulch: The Last Chinatown	p. 429
Appendix	p. 449
Bibliography	p. 473
Index	p. 491
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