I recently learned (from a Ken Liu short story) that in the gold rush era before the Chinese Exclusion Act, 28% of Idaho's population was actually Chinese. Link

I recently learned (from a Ken Liu short story) that in the gold rush era before the Chinese Exclusion Act, 28% of Idaho's population was actually Chinese. Link below describes in more detail. http://nwasianweekly.com/2009/07/historians-track-chinese-history-in-idaho/ http://nwasianweekly.com/2009/07/historians-track-chinese-hi...