Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oregon State University PressISBN-13:9780870715709ISBN-10:870715704UPC:9780870715709Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, MurderBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.18 x 5.74 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SCMN8MJ52N
Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon
In 1887, more than 30 Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved crime--one of the worst of the many crimes committed by whites against Chinese laborers in the American West--unearths the evidence that points to an improbable gang of rustlers and schoolboys, one...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oregon State University PressISBN-13:9780870715709ISBN-10:870715704UPC:9780870715709Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, MurderBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.18 x 5.74 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SCMN8MJ52N
R. GREGORY NOKES is the author of Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory, Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon, and The Troubled Life of Peter Burnett: Oregon Pioneer and First Governor of California. He traveled the world as a reporter and editor for The Associated Press and the Oregonian. A graduate of Willamette University, he attended Harvard University as a...
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