Going back to my roots
If my memory serves me correctly, the Chinese built the Flume. Americans were too soft apparently... Early signs of S.A.S. (Soft American Syndrome)
posted by ginmtb @ 8/26/2006
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3 Comments:
At 8/27/2006,
Frank said…
good thing there is a cure for SAS...it's BCR....uh that would be...Beat Chinese Racing ;)
At 8/28/2006,
xcslowpoke said…
Might want to research a bit more, Chinese made up a certain percentage but not all when building the RR and other works projects.
Do you really think that the Irish built the RR from the east? Well they were a percentage of the RR workers but there were also German, English, French, ...
Irish were thought of as second class citizens and Chinese were treated worse because of the color of their skin. So they both get credit because its histories way of educating society of the contributions of all.
Isn't it funny how a feel good story becomes history but its only partially true.
Try and study deeper than your HS history book. Want to see how history has rewritten itself, read a HS text on Vietnam then go ask an Uncle who was there. Better yet, in SJ go ask a person who was born and raised in Vietnam.
At 8/28/2006,
ginmtb said…
I was referring specifically to the flume above Lake Tahoe, not "all" RR and works projects. But who really knows what happened in history. The lunar landing video was taken at a salt flat in New Mexico, right?
Linky
In the Tahoe Basin, from 1870-1890, Chinese laborers, organized by Chinese middlemen from Carson City, dominated the cord wood cutting and flume tending industries. Lake Tahoe's timber, the "green gold" of the Sierras, was critical to supplying Comstock mines with bracing for shafts, fuel and building material. Ninety percent of the forest you see today is less than 100 years old. The forests were stripped of old growth in order to fuel the Comstock.
The largest known concentration of Chinese in the Lake Tahoe basin was in Glenbrook, on the east shore of the Lake. Now totally obscured by urban growth, the Chinese gardens of Glenbrook were once famous for fresh vegetables. In addition, archaeologists have discovered over 50 isolated sites where flume tenders and cordwood cutters worked and lived together in small enclaves, preserving as much of their traditions and culture as possible.
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