Hired out of the Central Pacific’s desperation for reliable laborers, Chinese men cut and blasted their way across the Sierras with much courage and endurance and little complaint. Superintendent Charley Crocker’s idea of using Chinese workers on the Central Pacific Railroad didn’t sit well with his construction foreman, 37-year-old James Harvey “Stro” Strobridge. “Good God!” …
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