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By Craig Storti. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991. xii + 193 pp. $21.95, ISBN 0-8138-1403-0.)
On September 2, 1885, a band of white coal miners attacked a group of Chinese coal miners in the frontier town of Rock Springs, Wyoming. Over forty Chinese were killed, and over five hundred Chinese were forcibly expelled from the town. Incident at Bitter Creek recounts this sordid tale and presents interpretations of the events that are very debatable and definitely lacking in compassion.
Author Craig Storti emphasizes the Rock Springs massacre as a symbolic event in the epic struggle between the forces of late nineteenth-century American monopoly capital (the Union Pacific Railroad) and...