Railroaded

in collaboration with The Spatial History Project


After the massacre there were 547 Chinese and 85 whites as the company concentrated all of its Chinese employees in Wyoming at Rock Springs for protection.

D. O. Clark to Bromley, Oct. 28, 1885, UP, RG 2361, box 21, Labor Disputes, Oct. 1885.

Callaway to Adams, Dec. 3, 1885, UP, RG 2631, Labor Disputes, Nov.-Dec. 1885.

Adams to Corbin, Dec. 16, 1885, UP, PO, CO, vol. 30, ser. 2, r. 26.

For similar complaints by Central Pacific, C. Crocker to CPH, Feb. 3, 1888, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 46.