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There’s no doubt that in general Chinese miners were ill-treated in the mining camps of California. Still, there were exceptions and one such story comes…
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A dispatch about the siege of Skull Bar in 1855 referred to rare Chinese participation in the Rogue River Indian Wars. Indians had attacked a miners’ camp…
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An 1857 Oregon law taxed each Chinese miner $2 a month for the privilege of mining in the state. Some counties even made it illegal for Chinese to hold or…