The Chinese Joss House Museum, in Evanston, Wyoming, which tells the story of Chinese immigrants who lived and worked in Uinta County from the 1870s through the 1930s. This is a replica of a Chinese temple constructed in Evanston in 1874. Like those in other Chinese communities of the American West, this joss house was built by subscription, with each member of the Chinese community contributing in some way to the temple's comstruction, decoration and furnishing. "Joss" is an English word for Chinese temples, corrupted from "dues," the Portuguese word for God
