介绍:
| Set in 1867, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy named Otter dreams of going to America. When he accidentally kills a Manchu, he is sent to the land of his dreams to join his father and uncle, who with other Chinese workers are building a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains. Otter joins the railroad crew with his father and experiences many hardships, such as cold and hunger, poverty, and exhaustion. He saves the railroad camp from disaster when he dynamites a huge snow overhang. Otter becomes a strong individual and is able to make decisions which will affect his life. He passes through the "Dragons Gate" as he grows up.
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