The Hells Canyon Massacre. The mass slaughter of Chinese gold miners by a gang of white horse thieves takes place, in Lewiston, Washington Territory, in what is now Idaho. This was one of many hate crimes perpetrated against Asian immigrants in the American West during this period.
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