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In this episode of Drowsy Historian, you are not a tycoon, a pioneer, or a name carved into the history books. You're one of the thousands of forgotten Chinese laborers brought to the American West in the 1800s — tasked with blasting through mountains, laying rail across barren wilderness, and enduring the contempt of a country that needed your labor but never wanted your presence. You will not be celebrated. You will not be photographed. And when the tracks are finished, you will be discarded.
Told in second-person narration, this immersive sleep history video traces your life from recruitment to quiet erasure. With vivid detail and a slow, weary tone, we examine the physical hardship, racial violence, and historical amnesia that shaped one of America’s most brutal infrastructure projects. This is not a tale of triumph — it’s one of survival without recognition.
So lie back. Breathe slowly. And drift off into a forgotten history that built a nation — and was buried beneath it.
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