"Gold Mountain," a staged reading of a musical about the Chinese railroad workers who built the transcontinental railroad, will be performed Friday and Saturday at Peery's Egyptian Theater in Ogden.

The world premiere of love story "Gold Mountain," about Chinese workers on the transcontinental railroad, is being produced by the Utah Shakespeare Festival. After 24 years, ...

Ghosts of Gold Mountain seeks to give long-overdue acknowledgement to the 20,000 Chinese laborers who built the ... and the railroad companies paid the Chinese workers far less than their white ...

Ogden • Michael Kwan can’t help but think about what life was like on a daily basis for his great-great-grandfather in the 1860s, working 12-hour days in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain ...

[Read a review of “Ghosts of Gold Mountain” here.] In 1867, some 3,000 workers went on strike. It was one of the largest worker protests in American history up to that point, Mr. Chang said.

Gold Mountain. To the Chinese of the 19th century, North America was known as Gum Shan, or Gold Mountain. The reasons ... Actively recruiting in China, these companies would pay for the passage of ...

These Chinese immigrants referred to the state as "Jinshen," or the Gold Mountain, and came here to make their fortunes. Just two decades later, 60 percent of all miners in California were Chinese ...

Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad Gordon H. Chang. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-328-61857-3 ...