Manzanar, California by Jane Wehrey

Manzanar, California


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Manzanar, California Jane Wehrey
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC


East of the rugged Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley lies Manzanar. Founded in 1910 as a fruit-growing colony, it was named in Spanish for the frangrant apple orchards that once filled its spectaculaly scenic landscape. Owens Valley Paiute lived there first, followed by white homesteaders and ranchers. Buet with the onset of World War II came a new identityas the first of 10 "relocation centers" hastily built in 1942 to house 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citisens, removed from the West Coast. In the face of upheaval and loss, Manzanar's 10,000 confined residents created parks, gardens, and a functioning wartime community within the camp's barb-wire-enclosed square mile ...

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