In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West

by Sue Fawn Chung

Book Overview

Both a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese miners in the American West, In Pursuit of Gold brings to life in rich detail the world of turn-of-the-century mining towns in the Northwest. Sue Fawn Chung meticulously recreates the lives of Chinese immigrants, miners, merchants, and others who populated these towns and interacted amicably with their white and Native American neighbors,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025203628X
• ISBN13: 9780252036286
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.4"