Chinese Gold: The Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region

by Sandy Lydon

Book Overview

An excellent history of Chinese settlements in Monterey, Carmel, Santa Cruz, and Watsonville (including some very fine maps). This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932319017
• ISBN13: 9780932319012
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Capitola Book Co
• Length: 550 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Best of the Best

Despite the profound ignorance of dim bulbs like the not so wizened guy, this is indeed a fine work of scholarship. Sandy Lydon, "the History Dude" is a master historian and any one of his books from Capitola Press has contributed more to America's documented heritage than most of us ever might hope to do in a book. So all you insomniacs out there who want to be rewarded by learning some fascinating California history, pick up a copy of Chinese Gold or any of Sandy's fine books like The Japanese in the Monterey Bay Region: A Brief History. For the numb skulls who prefer sleeping their lives away, please don't read any of his books and you can be even more ignorant than you already are.

Great story of ingenuity and survival in America

This GREAT BOOK is must for people interested in California, American and Asian/American history . Sandy Lydon has done extensive research on the Chinese in the Monterey Bay area in the late 1800's. This book documents a very important era in Chinese American history. Truly enlightening, interesting and informative.