You can fool yourself all you want, try to write this off as just a cheesy period drama. I was really not prepared to cry, but I did. And not to spoil, but the biggest reason why this high rating is justified is due to the ending.
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The subtle, but sad look on Charles' face as he goes to bed afterwards is perfectly portrayed by Michael Landon, who will only become better and better as the series progresses. The families are heartbroken to separate from each other, but what choice do you have when you can die if you don't? There's a conversation where Charles and his comrades are talking with each other, speaking fondly of their wives and kids. Little House On The Prairie wasn't all laughs and dances, tough s'hit happened and you had to deal with it one way or another. But what makes this episode truly stick out is the dramatic weight. And the friendship the four of them have feels so natural, and makes for nice, compelling viewing. I especially like Jack, who is a happy and crazy but lovable dynamite detonator. is pretty fun to watch, and Jack Peters, Jacob Jacobsen and Williams are all charming and well-written characters. The value of the stone may save the factory and the livelihood of its employees. I think the reason I didn't care about it as much is because it wasn't focused on a lot. Crazy Stone tells an absurd story of a most precious piece of jade being rediscovered at an unlikely place: a broken toilet in a struggling factory that is slated for demolition. The women working together (with Caroline organizing the team) is pretty lightweight stuff, although it provides a little bit of humor with one of them being less enthusiastic than the rest. The men head off to find work, Charles and his new friends picking one at a rock quarry. The women stay in the village trying to grow some crops, hard as it may be.
The thunder destroys all crops and everyone is in harsh economic trouble. But if you ask me what was the first sign of the show's greatness, definitely this one. Chinese workers eventually accounted for 90 percent of the company’s construction force.The first two episodes of the show were pretty good albeit corny. By the 1860s, officers of the Central Pacific, having abandoned ideas to recruit Mexicans or former slaves, looked to China to meet their enormous labor needs. Many went to California (nicknamed jinshan, or “Gold Mountain,” because of the Gold Rush), and some found work in the state’s early railroad ventures. Chang’s book is a moving effort to recover their stories and honor their indispensable contribution to the building of modern America.Ĭhang, a historian at Stanford University, begins in the Siyi, a coastal region in southeastern China where social turbulence during the 19th century pushed waves of immigrants to North American shores. Chang relates in “Ghosts of Gold Mountain,” the “Railroad Chinese” and their countrymen soon became the most despised group in the West, before being largely forgotten. When they entered the car, a newspaper reporter wrote, the other guests “cheered them as the chosen representatives of the race which have greatly helped to build the road.” The good feelings would not last. On hand at Strobridge’s gathering were a few Chinese, invited to stand in for thousands of others who had assembled the line. No less important was the symbolism: Only four years after the end of the Civil War, iron rails stitched the United States back together. With the linking of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railways, cross-country travel had been cut from several months to a single week. Shortly after the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869, James Strobridge - the construction foreman of the Central Pacific Railroad - held a celebratory meal in his private railcar. The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad New York Times Book Review by Andrew Graybill
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