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.