Bibliograph

My life as a Chinese immigrant, Max Caswell

Type

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My life as a Chinese immigrant, Max Caswell

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My life as a Chinese immigrant

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Max Caswell

Series statement

My place in history

Summary

The progress of America after the Industrial Revolution came at the cost of many unnamed lives, and there's no story more indicative of this than the plight of the Chinese men who built the Transcontinental Railroad. Young readers will be transported through first-person accounts, and even a Western Union telegram, into the Central Pacific camp, learning how track was laid, how perilous the job was, and how deeply racism affected these men who thanklessly connected the coasts. Black-and-white photography brings historical details into sharp focus, while a table of powerful statistics exposes the incredible reality of the epic project

Target audience

juvenile

Classification