Oregon Experience: Kam Wah Chung

Resources

Books

Jeffrey Barlow and Christine Richardson, China Doctor of John Day
Binford & Mort Publishing, 1979
Linda Barnes, Needles Herbs Gods and Ghosts - China Healing and the West to 1848
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005
Marie Wong, Sweet Cakes, Long Journey
University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, 2004

Articles

Remedies & Mysteries, Wanted: Translation of the Wild West-era cures of Chinese herbalist “Doc” Hay
by Richard Cockle, The Sunday Oregonian, June 15, 2008.

Web sites

Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site
http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_8.php
Grant County Historical Museum
http://www.ortelco.net/~museum/
About the Program
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The story of two Chinese immigrants after the Oregon Gold Rush.

Ing Hay & Lung On
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View images celebrating the lives of two important John Day residents.

The Tourist Garage
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Quite likely the country’s first Chinese-owned car dealership

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