John R. Wunder

About The Author

John R. Wunder is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. A widely published author and editor, his recent works include Reconfigurations of Native North America: An Anthology of New Perspectives and Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Books by John R. Wunder

Gold Mountain Turned to Dust

Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West

By John R. Wunder
Foreword by Liping Zhu
Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrim...
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