See:
Marshall, Howard Wight. Paradise Valley, Nevada: The People and Buildings of
an American Place. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1995.
for a late 19C. Chinese community adjacent to the town of Paradise Valley.
If memory serves :--), The good folks in Idaho have also excavated similar
structures associated with mining camps.
This might be of use also.
Marshall, Howard Wight. "American Folk Architecture: A Selected
Bibliography."Vol. 8. Publications of the American Folklife Center.
Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1981.
Best,
Gene Prince
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