North America
Bury my bones in America: the saga of a Chinese family in California, 1852-1996 : from San Francisco to the Sierra gold mines By Lani Ah Tye Farkas
Emeryville By The Emeryville Historical Society
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper Dec 1887
Oakland Police Department By Phil McArdle
La llamada de lo salvaje: y lecturas afines [Call of the wild Jack London]
La lotería china se juega apostando a un cartón sobre el que hay dibujados varios caracteres (animales, flores, etc.) debajo de los cuales figura un número. El jugador elige su dibujo y, si éste sale, consigue el premio.
Éste, y cualquier otro tipo de lotería, estuvo prohibido en todo el territorio de los Estados Unidos desde 1892 hasta 1963.
And this was the manner of dog Buck was in the fall of 1897, when
the Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen
North. But Buck did not read the newspapers, and he did not know
that Manuel, one of the gardener's helpers, was an undesirable
acquaintance. Manuel had one besetting sin. He loved to play
Chinese lottery. Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting
weakness--faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a
gardener's helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous
progeny.