Chinese on the American Frontier (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)

Chinese immigrants played a dynamic role in frontier America, yet scholars of Asian America have focused for the most part only on the Pacific Coast, especially California. This reader fills that gap by collecting memoirs, documents, and historical analyses from the other Western statesfrom the Cascades to the Great Plainsto provide a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in nineteenthcentury America.