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Author Chung, Sue Fawn, 1944-

Title In pursuit of gold : Chinese American miners and merchants in the American West / Sue Fawn Chung
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Asian American experience
Asian American experience.
Contents The coming and early challenges -- Onward to eastern Oregon -- Eastward to northeastern Nevada : Tuscarora -- Further east : Island Mountain and Gold Creek
Summary A fresh assessment of Chinese immigrant participation in small-town America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Chinese Americans -- Nevada -- Elko County -- History -- 19th century
Gold miners -- Nevada -- Elko County -- History -- 19th century
Merchants -- Nevada -- Elko County -- History -- 19th century
Mining camps -- Nevada -- Elko County -- History -- 19th century
Community life -- Nevada -- Elko County -- History -- 19th century
Intercultural communication -- Nevada -- Elko County -- History -- 19th century
Chinese Americans -- Oregon -- History -- 19th century
Chinese Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Chinese Americans.
Community life.
Ethnic relations.
Gold miners.
Intercultural communication.
Merchants.
Mining camps.
SUBJECT Elko County (Nev.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Oregon -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Nevada -- Elko County.
Oregon.
West United States.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019717390
ISBN 9780252093340
0252093348
1283244357
9781283244350
9786613244352
661324435X