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Chinatown, Boise, Idaho, 1870-1970 by Arthur Hart 979.6 Hart 

Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese edited by Priscilla Wegars 973.0495

Hidden Idaho Chinese Lore by M. Alfreda Elsensohn 979.6 Elsenso 

Idaho County’s Most Romantic Character, Polly Bemis by  M. Alfreda Elsensohn B Bemis Elsenso 

Polly Bemis, A Chinese American Pioneer by Priscilla Wegars J B Bemis Wegars 

Ruins of a World: Chinese Gold Mining at the Mon-Tung Site in the Snake River Canyon by Ronald L. James 979.61 James 

Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn Idaho Fiction  McCunn R 

Uncovering a Chinese Legacy: Historical Archaeology at Centerville, Idaho, Once the “Handsomest Town in the Basin” by Priscilla Wegars 979.674 Wegars 

Chinese in the West 

An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn 973.0495 Mccunn 

Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States Since 1850 by Roger Daniels 973.0495 Daniels

Asian-Americans in the Old West by Gail Sakurai 978.0049 Sakurai

Bury My Bones in America:  The Saga of a Chinese Family in California 1852-1996: from San Francisco  to the Sierra Gold Mines by Lani Ah Tye Farkas 979.4004 Farkas Farkas

A Chinaman’s Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier by Liping Zhu 979.674  ZhuT

he Chinese-American Heritage by David M. Brownstone 973.0495 Brownst

The Chinese on the American Frontier edited by Arif Dirlik RNW 973.0495 Chinese 

The Chinese in San Francisco: A Pictorial History by Laverne Mau Dicker 979.46 Dicker

The Columbia Guide to Asian-American History by Gary Y. Okihiro 973.0495 Okihiro

Fusang: The Chinese Who Built America by Stan Steiner 973.0495 Steiner

Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West by Vardis Fisher OV 978 Fisher

On Gold Mountain by Lisa See 929.2089 See See

The Story of the Chinese in America by B.L. Sung 973.0495 Sung

Websites

Asian American Comparative Collection http://www.uidaho.edu/LS/AACC/index.htmAsian Americans in Idahohttp://challenge.isu.edu/multicultural/AsianAm/asianam.htm

Chinese Exclusion Act

http://camla.org/history/exclact.htm

Chinese in California 1850-1925

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html

Chinese in California Timeline http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/chron.html

Chinese Americans in the Columbia River Basin http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha/ca/ca.htm

Idaho’s Chinese Pioneers http://www.idahohistory.net/ES4_chinese.pdf

Polly Bemis http://www.mccunn.com/PollyPic.html

Timeline From the Los Angeles Chinese American Museum

http://www.camla.org/history.htm