How a Mob Got Away with Murder in Truckee’s Chinatown

In the late 1800s, Truckee, California, had one of the largest Chinatowns in America. Built by the Chinese laborers who helped construct the Central Pacific Railroad, it was a thriving community—until the white landowners and business owners decided they wanted it gone. What followed was a campaign of terror, arson, and outright murder, culminating in the Trout Creek Outrage—a brutal attack on Chinese workers as they slept, carried out by a group of white men who believed they had the right to erase an entire population.

Despite confessions, testimony, and political pressure to hold the attackers accountable, what unfolded in the courtroom was just as predictable as the violence itself. A system designed to protect only certain people did exactly that.

This episode unpacks how an entire town conspired to erase its Chinese residents, the violent night that sealed their fate, and how Truckee’s racist tactics were so successful they became a blueprint for others to follow.

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