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- Title
'Verily the Road was Built with Chinaman's Bones': An Archaeology of Chinese Line Camps in Montana.
- Authors
Merritt, Christopher; Weisz, Gary; Dixon, Kelly
- Abstract
Transcontinental railroads conveyed information and resources that fueled the Gilded Age's quintessential financial and political corporate corruption and related social inequalities. Construction of the transcontinentals required massive numbers of laborers who lived in temporary 'line camps' along the railroad grades. A sample of spatially and ethnically segregated Chinese line camps along the transcontinental Northern Pacific Railroad in the Rocky Mountains of northwestern Montana provide historical and archaeological examples of the Gilded Age's pervasive racist mistreatment of the Chinese, culminating in Chinese exclusion laws.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MONTANA; NORTHERN Pacific Railroad Co.; RAILROAD design &; construction; CHINESE people; RAILROAD construction workers; TRANSCONTINENTAL railroads; RACE relations in the United States; HISTORICAL archaeology; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations
- Publication
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2012, Vol 16, Issue 4, p666
- ISSN
1092-7697
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10761-012-0197-7