Bringing Global History to the American History Survey: Rock Springs, 1885, the Meeting of Pacific and Atlantic Worlds in the Wyoming Desert

1. “Bringing Global History to the American History Survey: Rock Springs, 1885, the Meeting of Pacific and Atlantic Worlds in the Wyoming Desert”: My intention is to focus on the encounters and interactions of Euroamerican and Chinese immigrants in late 19th century Rock Springs, Wyoming, and how those diverse peoples experienced life, labor, culture, etc. in the desert West, culminating most likely with the violent encounter in 1885. There are two additional items that might be explored in what I argued was the mythopoeic comprehension of community life--both from the 1920s, where residents used two separate pageants to tell the Rock Springs story largely conflating European immigration and the nationalizing experience of the post-war years with Asians and Amerindians (and to lesser extent African Americans and Latinos) as exotic bystanders.