Theme
Immigrant History
12 destinations along 11 roads
The West's mines, railroads and sheep ranges ran on people who came from somewhere else, and the welcome rarely matched the work. Chinese crews cut the tunnels over the Sierra; in 1882 Congress barred their countrymen from coming at all, and towns from Tacoma to Butte set out to drive away the ones already here. Greek, Italian and Slavic miners made Carbon County one of the most mixed corners of the West, Basque herders built boardinghouses across the high desert, and Danish converts filled the Sanpete Valley. These are the places they built, kept, and defended in court.