The Coming Man from Canton: Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862-1943

by Christopher Merritt and Christopher W. Merritt

In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. During the 1860s Chinese immigrants arrived by the thousands, moving into the Rocky Mountain West and tenaciously searching for prosperity in the face of resistance, restriction, racism, and armed hostility from virtually every ethnic group in American society...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803299788
• ISBN13: 9780803299788
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"