Editing Idaho City, Idaho (section)

=== Chinese ===
Four thousand Chinese people lived in the Idaho Territory from 1869 to 1875. Like many Chinese immigrants, they came to “Gold Mountain” to work as miners, or found work as laundrymen and cooks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boisecounty.us/Visit_Boise_County.aspx|title=Boise County, Idaho|website=www.boisecounty.us|access-date=10 October 2018}}</ref> The store of Pon Yam, a prominent Chinese businessman Pon Yam House from 1867 is one of the only remaining buildings from Idaho City's Chinese. Although today Chinese are rarely seen except as tourists, the 1870 census reported at 1,751 Chinese who were nearly half of city residents. Annie Lee was one legendary Idaho city woman who like [[Polly Bemis]], escaped from sexual slavery. She escaped from a member of the Yeong Wo Company in the 1870s to Boise to marry her lover, another Chinese man. Charged by her owner with grand larceny, she told a judge that she wanted to stay in Boise City. The judge subsequently granted her freedom.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TiuiKwmqTdoC&q=%22idaho+city%22+brothel&pg=PA58|title=Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives|first=Huping|last=Ling|date=16 July 1998|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=9780791438640|access-date=10 October 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref>