02/11/2010 7:00 pm
Location:
- Street:
- Village Books
- Additional:
- 1200 Eleventh Street
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
After brisk sales and numerous award, Massacred for Gold is already in its second printing. This is the first authoritative account of the 1887 massacre of up to 34 Chinese gold miners in Hells Canyon. The killers were an improbable gang of Oregon horse thieves and schoolboys, motivated by racial hatred and the prospect of easy fortune. None of them were held accountable.
Veteran journalist Greg Nokes exposes a century-long cover-up of the crime by a white population which cared more about protecting the reputations of the killers and their families than solving the worst crime committed by whites against 19th century Chinese immigrants.
