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Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...
The six men organize themselves as the first Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Company. October: Having completed his survey of the Sierra Nevada, Judah returns to Washington ...
Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over the ... addresses the ways in which the railroad transformed the American West while ...