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Ogden May 10th, 1919. Courtesy National Park Service.

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An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many original documents.

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chinese immigration
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asian immigration, central pacific railroad, diversity in gilded age, gilded age, immigrants in gilded age, immigrants to u.s., immigration law, asian railroad workers, chinese railroad workers, chinese workers, social order in gilded age
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