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Chinese People in Idaho and the West

Idaho

  • Elliott, Kenneth J. Address of Worshipful Grand Historian, Br. K.J. Elliott at 10th annual communication of the Grand Lodge AF & AM of Idaho. Pocatello, Idaho. 1971. – A mimeographed copy of his speech on “Chinese Masonic” lodges.
  • Elsensohn, M. Alfreda. Idaho Chinese Lore. Cottonwood, Idaho: Idaho Corporation of Benedictine Sisters, 1970.
  • Elsensohn, M. Alfreda. Idaho County’s most romantic character, Polly Bemis. Cottonwood, Idaho  Idaho Corp. of Benedictine Sisters, 1979.
  • Hart, Arthur A. Basin of gold : life in Boise Basin, 1862-1890. Boise, Idaho: Idaho City Historical Foundation, 1986.
  • Hart, Arthur A. Chinatown, Boise, Idaho, 1870-1970. Boise, Idaho: Historic Idaho, 2002.
  • James, Ronald L.; John C. Lytle, technical editor. Ruins of a world: Chinese gold mining at the Mon-Tung site in the Snake River Canyon. United States: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 1995.
  • McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. Thousand pieces of gold : a biographical novel. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.
  • Wegars, Priscilla. Chinese at the Confluence: Lewiston’s Beuk Aie Temple. Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press in association with Lewis-Clark Center for Arts & History, 2000.
  • Wegers, Priscilla, Editor. Hidden heritage : historical archaeology of the overseas Chinese. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Pub. Co., 1993.
  • Wegars, Priscilla. Polly Bemis, a Chinese American pioneer. Cambridge, Idaho: Backeddy Books, 2003.
  • Wegars, Priscilla., illustrations by Yixian Xu. Uncovering a Chinese legacy : historical archaeology at Centerville, Idaho, once the “handsomest town in the basin.” Boise, Idaho: Idaho Bureau of Land Management, 2001.
  • Wells, Merle W. Gold Camps & Silver Cities: nineteenth-century mining in central and southern Idaho. Publisher: Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 2002.
  • Yu, Li-hua. Chinese Immigrants in Idaho. Dissertation. Ph. D. Bowling Green State University. 1991.
Pon Yam House, Idaho City, April 25, 2018. Photo by farrit.lili.org.

The West

  • Bronson, Bennet; and Chuimei Ho. Coming Home in Gold Brocade: Chinese in early Northwest America. Seattle, Washington: Chinese in Northwest American Research Committee, 2015.
  • Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States Since 1850. University of Washington Press, 1988.
  • Dicker, Laverne Mau; with a pref. by Thomas W. Chinn. The Chinese in San Francisco: a pictorial history. New York: Dover Publications, 1979.
  • Dirlik, Arif, with the assistance of Malcolm Yeung. Chinese on the American frontier. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
  • Farkas, Lani Ah Tye. Bury my bones in America : the saga of a Chinese family in California, 1852-1996: from San Francisco to the Sierra gold mines. Nevada City, California: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1998. 1st edition.
  • Fisher, Vardis; and Opal Laurel Holmes. Gold rushes and mining camps of the early American West. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1968.
  • McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. An illustrated history of the Chinese in America. San Francisco: Design Enterprises of San Francisco, 1979.
  • Mead, George R. A History of the Chinese in the West, 1848-1880. Revised Edition. La Grande, Oregon: E-Cat Worlds, 2012.
  • See, Lisa. On Gold Mountain. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 1st ed.
  • Trull, Fern Coble. The history of the Chinese in Idaho from 1864 to 1910. Dissertation. M.A. University of Oregon. 1946.
  • Wunder, John R.; foreword by Liping Zhu. Gold mountain turned to dust: essays on the legal history of the Chinese in the nineteenth-century American West. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
  • Zhu, Liping. A Chinaman’s Chance: the Chinese on the Rocky Mountain mining frontier. Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1997.

Websites

  • Asian American Comparative Collection Laboratory of Anthropology, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Idaho
  • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) OurDocuments.gov – Archived on the Wayback Machine, Archive.org
  • Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive, (CRBEHA) Washington State University
  • Polly Bemis – Photos of Polly and Her Ranch by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
  • Chinese North America Research Committee
  • Lewiston’s Beuk Aie Temple, Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts & History

 

This page updated by Ronnie Joiner on December 31, 2022.

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