Heart Mountain Chronicles
Author | : Bernard Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 173348972X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781733489720 |
Rating | : 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This work records the history of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center beginning on December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor to April 22, 1953, when the Heart Mountain Post Office closed because nobody lived there anymore. The Center, located between the towns of Cody and Powell in northern Wyoming, was built in 60 days (June 10 to August 12, 1942) to imprison 11,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The book tells who built the Center, where the blueprints came from which were used to build it, why its infrastructure turned out the way it did, who managed the Center, how the prisoners essentially completed its construction with their own labor, what life was like living in such a place, and what happened to the Center after the war was over.