Massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming

SOURCE: "The Massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming" (artist: T. de Thul from photographs by C.A. Booth), Harper’s Weekly, 26 September 1885, p. 637; California State Library, California History Room.

The Chinese were caught in a conflict between labor and perceived capitalists. Anti-Chinese meetings incited riots throughout the west of the Rockies. At the Union Pacific coal mines of Rock Springs, Wyoming, Chinese mine workers were attacked as strike breakers. 28 were killed, 15 wounded, and several hundred chased out of town.