'Everlasting remembrance': The archaeology of 19th-century Chinese labor in the Western lumber industry (Nevada)

Chinese immigrants played a crucial role in the development of Western economics by supplying much needed manual labor. In the Nevada lumber industry Chinese men contributed the majority of labor for large-scale wood extractions from the 1870s through the late 1880s. This report documents an archaeological excavation at TY3935, a small domestic wood camp on Spooner Summit in the Tahoe Basin of the eastern Sierra Nevada. The findings supplement the limited historical record, offering new information on the litestyles, living conditions, and social activity of Chinese lumber employees in a remote location.