Plum Alley in downtown Salt Lake City was the heart of Chinatoxon in Utah's capital. This photograph by Shipler was taken August 24, 1907. USHS collections.
Utah's Chinatowns: The Development and Decline of Extinct Ethnic Enclaves BY DANIEL LIESTMAN
the transcontinental railroad are legendary. Too often, though, this is the only context in which the Chinese are mentioned as a component of Utah's history.1 T H E LABORS OF THE CHINESE IN CONSTRUCTING
Mr. Liestman is the bibliographic specialist for the social sciences at Seattle Pacific University. 1 Exceptions include "The Early Chinese of Western United States" in Kate B. Carter, ed., Our Pioneer Heritage, 20 vols. (Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1958-77), 10:429-81; Don C. Conley, "The Pioneer Chinese of Utah" in The Peoples of Utah, ed. Helen Z. Papanikolas (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1976), pp. 251-77; Don C. Conley, "The Pioneer Chinese of Utah" (MA. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1976)—all subsequent references to Conley's work are to this thesis; Lester A. Hubbard, "John Chinaman in the West," Western Humanities Review A (1950): 311-21; Dean L. May, Utah: A People's History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987), pp. 141-55; Leslie G. Kelen and Sandra T Fuller, eds., The Other Utahns: A Photographic Portfolio (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988), pp. 48-61.