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http://www.scoop.it/t/chinese-american-history/p/4025463096/201
Chinese and other early Asians in Oklahoma
John Jung's insight:
"Chinese men lived in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, soon after the Land Run
of 1889. They may first have seen the territory as railroad workers, when
the Southern Kansas Railway (later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
) constructed its line from Kansas through the Unassigned Lands in 1886-87,
or they may have come as cooks or laundrymen with the U.S. Army in 1889. Tom
Sing Laundry, photographed in Guthrie in 1889, is the earliest identifiably
Chinese business in the region. An 1889 Oklahoma City directory lists five
Chinese-owned laundries and a presumed population of eighteen men."
"The Chinese population was dispersed around Oklahoma in the early statehood
period. Many towns had a laundry or a restaurant operated by a Chinese
person. In those years virtually all of the men were single, and in larger
towns they often lived together in common quarters and worked together in a
business.." |
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