The War of the Woods: Chinese Wood Choppers and Unlikely Allies, Montana 1880 - 1900

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University of Notre Dame associate professor Mark Johnson discusses the tensions in wood harvesting around Butte in the early 1880s in The War of the Woods: Chinese Wood Choppers and Unlikely Allies, Montana 1880–1900, sharing the story of a clash between Chinese and white woodsmen and the Butte constable who intervened.