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Bitter Creek: An Epic Poem

By Teow Lim Goh
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By Teow Lim Goh
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Bitter Creek, a lyric Chinese epic of the American West, reveals the devastating realities of the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre.

In September of 1885, the Chinese coal miners who were brought into Wyoming as strikebreakers were ambushed and driven out of the town of Rock Springs at gunpoint by white coal miners. Bitter Creek revisits this dark episode—known today as the Rock Springs Massacre—revealing the stories beneath this violent, decade-long culmination of labor struggles and racial hostil...

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PoetryAmerican PoetryAsian American PoetryAmerican poetry->Asian American authors