The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th ... on blasting and building tunnels through the Sierra Nevada mountains as part of the transcontinental railroad.

surrounded by a cheering crowd of railroad workers. But the photo tells an incomplete story: None of the 20,000 or so Chinese immigrants who had risked their lives to blast granite and break through ...

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 ...

A reading selection talked about the transcontinental railroad, but it didn’t mention the Chinese workers who built it, she said. “Ultimately, our goal is that the K-12 educational system ...