Bury My Bones in America: The Saga of a Chinese Family in California, 1852-1996--From San Francisco to the Sierra Gold Mines - Softcover

Farkas, Lani Ah Tye

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887694110 ISBN 13: 9781887694117

Publisher: Carl Mautz Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Tells the story of Yee Ah Tye, a Chinese immigrant who came to California during the Gold Rush, and his descendants and fellow immigrants

About this title

About the Author:

Lani Ah Tye Farkas is a fourth generation Chinese American, born and raised in Stockton, California. She graduated from San Francisco State University in 1969 and has been an elementary school teacher in Stockton since 1971. Ms. Farkas is the great grand daughter of Yee Ah Tye, the Gold Rush pioneer who established the Ah Tye family in California.

From Booklist:

The first permanent Chinese community in the U.S. did not exist until the mid-nineteenth century. It was the 1849 California gold rush that initially brought a large number of Chinese to San Francisco and the gold mining areas. Eventually they were to migrate to all parts of the nation, constituting one part of its multicultural mosaic. Although the Chinese played an important role in developing the frontier, from mining to railroad construction, they have been to a large extent overlooked by historians. When acknowledged, they have invariably been portrayed as a faceless mass, largely because of the lack of available biographical material. Farkas' extensively researched and well-illustrated book is one of the very few published histories of a Chinese American family. It should inspire other similar efforts on such a neglected subject. Fred Egloff

About this edition

• Publisher: Carl Mautz Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1887694110
• ISBN 13: 9781887694117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200