Review: Gold Mountain Turned to Dust: Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West, by John R. Wunder

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Book Review| May 01 2019 Review: Gold Mountain Turned to Dust: Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West, by John R. Wunder Gold Mountain Turned to Dust: Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West. By John R. Wunder (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 2018, 248 pp. $29.95 cloth). Sue Fawn Chung Sue Fawn Chung Sue Fawn Chung taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for almost forty years and currently is Professor Emerita. Her most recent publications include, The Chinese in Nevada (2011), In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese Miners and Merchants in the American West (2011, Carolyn Bancroft Award) and Chinese in the Woods: Logging and Lumbering in the American West (2015), and a chapter in Chinese America: History and Perspective (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (2019) 101 (2): 245–247. https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2019.101.2.245 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sue Fawn Chung; Review: Gold Mountain Turned to Dust: Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West, by John R. Wunder. Southern California Quarterly 1 May 2019; 101 (2): 245–247. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2019.101.2.245 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2019 by The Historical Society of Southern California2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.