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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: May 15, 2018
Caption: Chinese Miners and the Snake River Canyon Gold Rush panel
Additional Description: Captions: (middle left) "The Chinese are the very Quakers of the enterprise; they... work in heaps... that have been abandoned and their skills and perseverance could make a living out of what has been disdainfully cast away." -- Comment of British observer, in the Idaho Statesman of Aug. 21, 1869; (bottom, mid-left) The one-way trip from Canton (Guangdong provincial capitol) to Seattle or San Francisco cost $50 and took six weeks by ship. Some miners then walked to the goldfields of Idaho rater than pay $100 for the 600-mile overland stage coach journey.; (center) Typical Chinese Pottery; (bottom, mid-right) Mining tools from the Mon-Tung archaeological site near Shoshone Falls; (upper right) Census Data - Chinese in Idaho; (middle right) Not all Chinese were miners, some made their living growing vegetables to sell to the Chinese and Anglo miners.
Submitted: October 26, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p451286
File Size: 3.284 Megabytes

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