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Maybe a third of a million people came to California for the gold rush of 1849, and easily thousands more have come to the West since. Many of them had… -
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…
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