Hagerman Fossil Beds National Park
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Friday May 15 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
What Have We Learned About Chinese Railroad Wokers?
Chinese immigrants composed over 75 percent of the Transcontinental Railroad workforce between 1865 and 1869, numbering more than 11,000 by its completion. These Chinese laborers, mostly young men ages 15-25, left their families and homes in China to seek new economic o......More
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Friday May 15 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
What Have We Learned About Chinese Railroad Wokers?
Chinese immigrants composed over 75 percent of the Transcontinental Railroad workforce between 1865 and 1869, numbering more than 11,000 by its completion. These Chinese laborers, mostly young men ages 15-25, left their families and homes in China to seek new economic o......More
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Friday June 26 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Horses and People in the Northern Rockies
As America marks its 250th anniversary, Hagerman Fossil Beds and the Northern Rockies reflect on a connection between people and horses that goes back much further than a quarter-millennium. From their first evolution to the lifeways of ancient hunters of North America,......More
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Friday June 26 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Horses and People in the Northern Rockies
As America marks its 250th anniversary, Hagerman Fossil Beds and the Northern Rockies reflect on a connection between people and horses that goes back much further than a quarter-millennium. From their first evolution to the lifeways of ancient hunters of North America,......More
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Friday July 17 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
The Light of a Hundred Fires: Chinese Gold Mining Networks in Idaho's Boise Basin, 1860-1915
Chinese migrants were some of the first and most numerous participants in Idaho’s nineteenth-century gold rushes. In mining communities across Idaho, Chinese residents often made up more than half of the local population and an even higher percentage of gold seekers. Th......More
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Friday July 17 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
The Light of a Hundred Fires: Chinese Gold Mining Networks in Idaho's Boise Basin, 1860-1915
Chinese migrants were some of the first and most numerous participants in Idaho’s nineteenth-century gold rushes. In mining communities across Idaho, Chinese residents often made up more than half of the local population and an even higher percentage of gold seekers. Th......More