The Transcontinental Railroad was one of the most ambitious projects in US history - but it came at a deadly cost. Built through treacherous mountains, scorching deserts, and unforgiving terrain, ...

They continued through Platte Valley, destroying stage stations and telepgraph wires, effectively halting transcontinental ... put fear into the hearts of railroad workers, although it occurred ...

We have bled, and we have died, building and sustaining America,” said Kwan, 57, president of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association, which aims to give their forefathers their due.

The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America ... Just six months after the meeting at Promontory Summit, workers half the world away consummated their ...

The layoffs are spread across more than a dozen job classifications and will impact between 45 and 65 workers, the company ...

In 1867, Chinese transcontinental railroad workers went on strike to protest unsafe working conditions and lower pay than their white peers. Then came the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act–the first ...

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, ...