Massacred for Gold The Chinese in Hells Canyon

Name: Massacred for Gold The Chinese in Hells Canyon
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ISBN: 9780870715709

ISBN-10: 0870715704

ISBN-13: 9780870715709

Edition: 2009

Authors: R. Gregory Nokes

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In 1887, more than thirty Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved crime, unearths the evidence that points to an improbable gang of rustlers and schoolboys, one only fifteen, as the killers. The crime was discovered weeks after it happened, but no charges were brought for nearly a year, when gang member Frank Vaughan, son of a well-known settler family, confessed and turned state’s evidence. Six men and boys, all from northeastern Oregon’s remote Wallowa county, were charged—but three fled, and the others were found innocent by a jury that a witness…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.97" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Prologue



The Dead



Tales of Murder



"Adventurous Boys"



Miles from Punyu



Why they Came



More Tales of Murder



The Judge and "The Chinaman"



A Personal Journey



The Mon-Tung Camp



Two Investigations



"With Great Regret"



Rock Springs and More



"Deplorable in the Extreme"



The "Innocent"



Vaughan Confesses



"Don't Ask ... Don't Tell"



A Story Changes



Behind the News



On a Merry-Go-Round



Claims for Corpses



A Kind of Trial



Wanted: Horse Thieves



Tightening the Screws



A Second Confession



Blooming Flour



Flight



P.S. Keeping Secrets



The Secret Keepers



And Now, the Journal



The Coffin Maker



Memorial Not



Horner's Epilogue


Epilogue


Appendix


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index