In the premiere episode of All in La Famigghia, we look at the story of how our great great uncles ended up going all the way from Sicily, to the US, and back again.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/railroad-maps-1828-to-1900/articles-and-essays/history-of-railroads-and-maps/the-transcontinental-railroad/

https://dp.la/exhibitions/transcontinental-railroad/human-impact/native-americans

https://www.thethinkingtraveller.com/italy/sicily/guide-to-sicily/history-of-sicily/sicilian-emigration-to-america

https://www.uscitizenship.info/Chinese-immigration-and-the-Transcontinental-railroad/

https://janetpanic.com/how-many-chinese-died-working-on-the-transcontinental-railroad/

https://www.history.com/news/transcontinental-railroad-chinese-immigrants

https://www.history.com/news/transcontinental-railroad-workers-impact

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-native-americans-and-transcontinental-railroad/

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/januaryfebruary/feature/what-sets-italian-americans-other-immigrants

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/how-the-irish-were-complicit-in-native-american-suffering-1.3421243

https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/10-stunning-similarities-between-irish-and-native-historic-experiences

https://time.com/5833592/native-american-irish-famine/

A history of the Indians of the United States

The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre, Brigham D. Madsen, foreword by Charles S. Peterson, University of Utah Press (1985, paperback 1995)

"The Settler's War" of The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867–1869, by John H. Monnett, University Press of Colorado (1992)

Life of George Bent: Written From His Letters, by George E. Hyde, edited by Savoie Lottinville, University of Oklahoma Press (1968)

Harry Hearder, Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento 1790 – 1870 (1980)

Destination America

Cavaioli, Frank J. "Patterns of Italian Immigration to the United States" (PDF). The Catholic Social Science Review

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Immigration/Oyz-m_ovuIwC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Immigration Charles Willis

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/italian/the-great-arrival/

https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/inventions/transcontinental-railroad