RARE Humboldt CA Pic Chinese Charley Charlie Moon Wed to Native - Yurok Wiyot

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RARE Humboldt CA Pic Chinese Charley Charlie Moon Wed to Native - Yurok Wiyot:
$75.50

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We came across an estate locker in the Willow Creek, CA area approx. 3 years ago. We are just now beginning to go through many of the items and there are many photographs. This specific photo was plopped right in the middle and we (being locals of the Eureka, Arcata) area could not believe our eyes!

Charlie was a \'Chinaman\' who was married to Native American Minnie Tom - 1/2 Yurok & 1/2 Wiyot, daughter of Redwood or Doc Tom and Mary Tom. Together Charley and Minnie had 9 Children and there are still descendants living in the Hupa/Hoopa and outlying communities to this day.

Charley is special due to the fact that he was a Chinese employee of a Large Ranching Family - the Bairs. Everyone loved his cooking and loved him. When the CHINESE EXPULSION of Humboldt and other counties and states in 1885 occurred over low wage pay to the Chinese there was an armed mob sent out to the Bair ranch to gather him up and put him on a Ship, the Humboldt, to San Francisco. When the mob arrived his employer met them with a gun, stood between Charlie and the mob and stated \'He\'s a good worker, you\'re not taking him.\" The mob then turned around and did not return. And Charlie lived a long life.

Before we turned the pic over we thought it was Charley Moon, probably in the 19 - teens/twentys hanging out with Charlie Bairs son Tom Bair (who is iconic for ranching/ranching laws/acting/boxer/and more...!) and proof behold we flipped it over and it had a semi current sticker from a photo shop on it to contact a Moon in the Hupa / Hoopa area with a local phone #. AWESOME!

~We are not proud about our historical roots, this is a story that has not been told much outside of our county in rural Northern California. Our area was full of racist men who hated the Chinese. Once the town was \"cleansed\", proclamation was made that it was now \"Chinaman free\". It took many years for the Chinese population to return to the area. This would be an excellent study topic.

This is An sale for a VERY Special and Very Rare Humboldt county California historical item.

It is a photo approx. 4.5\" x 3.5\" of Charlie /Charley Moon with his Bosses Son and friend Tom Bair. The two are holding the head of what looks like a buck.

Date is unknown, and location unknown but it could possibly be The Charlie Bair Ranch at Redwood (between Blue Lake and Willow Creek area). The reverse side has a contemporary photo sticker stating: Customer original enclosed with the family name of Moon.

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Below is a link to Wiyot News and 3 pages down is an article by A descendant of Charlie Moon. And the account as told to the Chinese Expulsion Web fury, a mob of 600 men gathered at Centennial Hall and began formulating ideas on how to rid the county of all Chinese influence. Ideas were thrown out such as to massacre every Chinaman in the area. The second idea was to pillage the Chinatown and drive the inhabitants into the Redwood Forest. After such rabble, the Reverend Huntington stopped the hostile conclusions and explained to them that the Chinese had not meant to murder Kendall, and that they pay their rent and keep to themselves. This ended all hostile intentions, with only the new idea of banishing the whole Chinese race from the county immediately. This method of removal came to be known as the Eureka Plan because it involved no violence to expel the Chinese. A team of fifteen men were sent out then, and without the consent of the mayor or police department, began going through Chinatown ordering all to gather what belongings they could carry and to leave Humboldt County by 3:00 p.m. the next day. Chinese shops were raided by white gangs while the shop keepers watched helplessly. Hanging from the gallows was a sign reading: “Any Chinese seen on the street after three o’clock today will be hung to this gallows.” The angry mobs dragged the Chinese’ supplies down to the dock and filled wagons with other supplies and the banished. Meanwhile, in Blue Lake, a mob had captured twenty railroad workers and marched them back to the bay under the accusation of murder of David Kendall. In only less than 48 hours, the city of Eureka had transformed from a reasonably peaceful place to a hostile, Chinese-hating community. Only one Chinaman was allowed to stay. “Charlie” Moon was among one of the more accepted and respected Chinese man in the community mainly because of his good cooking, well known in Eureka. His employer refused to give up the hard worker and no further struggles persisted. Charlie became the father of many children and his descendents still populate Humboldt to this day. Another Chinese man, Charley Wei Lum was going to say good-bye to the Reverend Huntington and to thank him for converting him to Christianity when the mob of white men dragged him out of the Reverend’s house and to the gallows. A remark from Huntington’s Methodist colleagues saved Wei Lum: “Boys, take that rope off that boy’s neck! If you hang him you’ll hang him over my dead body.” At this the men allowed Wei Lum to join the rest of his fellow Chinamen, alive, and the mob hung and effigy of the minister instead from the gallows. Though Wei Lum had been saved, he still was banished among the other 309 Chinamen.

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