Heart Mountain Chronicles

HEART MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: The History of a Japanese Relocation Center By Bernard and James Murphy.  This is the story of a city. Heart Mountain Chronicles is a  meticulously researched account of the construction and operation of one  of the ten prison camps built by the U.S. Government in the summer of  1942 to incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry living along the West  Coast after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The book details the planning, administration, and services that were  developed to intern 11,000 people at the Heart Mountain Relocation  Center in Wyoming. It’s the story of the physical as well as the social  infrastructure that the internees created for themselves: schools,  shops, a newspaper, hospital, fire department, and a system of  self-government. It is a fascinating study of a temporary city, the  resilience and creativity of the Japanese Americans interned there, and  all the accompanying community services that they created from scratch  in a short time with fe