/tags/chinese-miners Chinese Miners en-US Copyright Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:00:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2020-02-25/as-it-was-chinese-fit-into-trinity-center-community-after-1872 There’s no doubt that in general Chinese miners were ill-treated in the mining camps of California. Still, there were exceptions and one such story comes… Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:00:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2020-02-25/as-it-was-chinese-fit-into-trinity-center-community-after-1872 Gail Fiorini-Jenner /show/as-it-was/2018-05-08/as-it-was-chinese-miners-participate-in-rogue-river-indian-wars A dispatch about the siege of Skull Bar in 1855 referred to rare Chinese participation in the Rogue River Indian Wars. Indians had attacked a miners’ camp… Tue, 08 May 2018 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2018-05-08/as-it-was-chinese-miners-participate-in-rogue-river-indian-wars Lynda Demsher /show/as-it-was/2016-06-01/chinese-miners-turn-discarded-clay-tailings-into-gold An 1857 Oregon law taxed each Chinese miner $2 a month for the privilege of mining in the state. Some counties even made it illegal for Chinese to hold or… Wed, 01 Jun 2016 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2016-06-01/chinese-miners-turn-discarded-clay-tailings-into-gold Lynda Demsher