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Chinese miners are massacred in Wyoming Territory

HISTORY

Marina Hsieh

On September 2, 1885, 150 white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, brutally attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15 others, and driving several hundred more out of town.  

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Chinese miners are massacred in Wyoming Territory

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