Throughout this work, author Gordon Chang rightfully laments the current lack of firsthand account from any of the Chinese migrants who helped construct the Transcontinental Railroad. However, if he hadn't called attention to this so plainly, I'm genuinely unsure if it's something that I would have been able to pick up on. That's because his drawing upon a diverse and wide range of resources and research, Chang is able to construct an incredibly thorough and detailed picture of who the Chinese workers on the Central Pacific Line were, where they came from, and what kind lives that they lived as they help connect America from coast to coast. "Ghosts of Gold Mountain" is nothing less than a fantastic feat of scholarship that not merely shines a spotlight onto a group that have nearly vanished from America's historical memory, but makes them all come alive again.