Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over the Sierra Nevada ... history of Chinese railroad workers by Stanford scholar Gordon ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th ... on blasting and building tunnels ...

Builders of the transcontinental railroad faced ... Getting through the Sierra Nevada would require fortitude, technology -- and the sacrifice of many workers' lives. The Big Obstacle In August ...

among them 300 Chinese railroad workers who fell to their deaths during the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada at “Cape Horn,” a treacherous area along the American ...

The results were not what he expected. On June 25, Chinese workers left their grading work along a two-mile stretch on the eastern Sierra slope and went back to their camp. One-eyed construction ...

Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co director of the ...