Shoshi Parks

Shoshi Parks

Shoshi Parks is an anthropologist and freelance writer whose work on history, travel, food and the natural world has appeared at Atlas Obscura, Afar, NPR and a variety of other outlets. She lives in California's Bay Area.

The Donner Summit tunnels and 13 others in the Sierra Nevada built by Chinese railroad workers remain a testament to ingenuity and industry. 

The Quest to Protect California's Transcontinental Railroad Tunnels

Built by Chinese immigrants in the 1860s, the caverns cutting through Donner Summit helped unite the country

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