Chicago World's Fair, "Rattlesnake King" Clark Stanley took the stage to promote his miracle product, "Stanley's Snake Oil." ...

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 ...

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 ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland ...

from artifacts like a toothbrush that belonged to a Chinese railroad worker, to photographs that documented Chinese Oregonian life in the late 19th century. Lexie Briggs, the marketing and ...

Engineers shake hands and pop champagne, 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 ...

This Saturday, head downtown for the 2025 Silver Spike Railroad Jubilee. It’s the 145th anniversary of the arrival of the ...

Skip to content viewer section. Manu Karuka, Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019). 2. Paul A Kramer, ...