Chinese smuggler saved woman and her baby, then vanished

Chinese smuggler saved woman and her baby, then vanished

In Gold Rush-era Oregon, the most skilled miners were probably the Chinese - but they were in constant danger. To avoid being robbed, they entrusted their gold to professional couriers who masqueraded as penniless vagabonds. This is a story from the life of one of them, a man we know only as 'Cheng.' Cheng was on his way to a southern-Oregon mining outpost one evening, during the heyday...