Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Chinese druggist By Finn J.D. John In the decade or two following the 1849 gold rush, a sort of “bracero” program got started in the western U.S. Chinese laborers — called “coolies” after the Chinese term “ku li,” meaning “muscle strength” — poured across the ocean to the land they called “Gold Mountain,” eager to do the dirty, menial and degrading jobs that were left to be done when all the Euro-Americans were off looking for gold or staking a homestead claim. Little is known today about the Chinese. Most had great difficulty le...
McKenzie River Reflections...
