Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the ... and line surveyors did not always return from their routes. News of the slaughter of troops at Fort Philip Kearny on December ...

upon the same terms and conditions in all respects as are provided [for construction of the Union Pacific Railroad].... The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California are hereby authorized to ...

Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over the ... addresses the ways in which the railroad transformed the American West while ...