Spud thinks he's being replaced. Will there be a new scarecrow in the crew? Then, Scruffty gets in the way of a new job, and the crew gets to meet a new team member named Marjorie.

Sold to a human trafficker after her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang, arriving in 19th-century America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of her absent father, makes her way through an unforgiving new world in hopes of reuniting her family.

"A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now"--

"I've written this book in hopes that its stories--and the incredible people they're about--will pull our country closer together through a shared history of the American West. In its own way the Wild West was a melting post every bit as much as the cities of the East Coast--and maybe even more so. While the American cowboy is, deservedly, a cultural icon and part of our national mythology, what many people don't know, is that a significant per\centage...

A collection of newspaper articles and letters to the editor from the San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune disputing the presence of Chinese laborers in digging the tunnels for the Southern Pacific route over the Cuesta grade.