ASIN: B009T2ZZV4
Publisher: World Publishing
Pages: 208
Wenatchee’s Dark Past is a non-fiction book looking at racial minorities in the Wenatchee, Washington area. The struggles of Indians, Asians, Blacks, and Latinos are reviewed in chronological and topical order. A thorough manuscript, with over 1400 citations, this book would make a great supplemental textbook for classes on Washington state history or race relations. Highlights from the book include: Indians helped the White settlers survive the winter by helping them cross rivers and supplying them with food; forced off their land, Indians worked as migrant workers picking hops, tomatoes, and apples; Saddle Rock, the famous rock formation in Wenatchee, is officially named “Squaw Saddle;” an entire Chinese village of over 100 residents just north of Wenatchee had a store, laundry, barber shop, and stables; the City of Wenatchee passed a resolution forbidding “Mongolians” from entering ...
