Guides

Guides for Readers

Deep Creek is a historical novel inspired by actual events and people: 

  • the 1887 massacre of Chinese miners in remote, wild Hells Canyon
  • the middle-aged judge who went after their slayers
  • and the sham race-murder trial that followed,
  • thanks to the opposition and indifference of area citizens. 

This American tragedy was long suppressed and its victims of genocide nearly forgotten; Deep Creek teams fact and imagination to illuminate how and why.

Click on the links below to view or download the PDF guides:

  1.  Author Q & A
  2. Discussion Questions
  3. Character Profiles
  4. Historical Sources