On Gold Mountain
How were the Chinese workers on the Transcontinental Railroad transported down the cliffs as noted in the book, On Gold Mountain?
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See writes, “lowered by wicker baskets down sheer cliffs, [the Chinese immigrants] chiseled through granite and shale to carve out shelves on which to lay track” (9).
On Gold Mountain