Finding Guide by Tony Gardner
1 box (6 folders)
The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was built during the summer of 1942
and received its first contingent of Japanese-Americans August 12, 1942.
It is located in Park County, northwestern Wyoming. The last internees left
October 10, 1945.
The collection contains Community Camp Council meeting minutes, camp laws,
correspondence, the case of People of Heart Mountain vs. Tom Yamada, and
other documents. It was assembled by the Library and is part of the Japanese-American
Internment collection which includes records of the War
Relocation Authority,
publications and documents of Relief and Support Groups
for Japanese-Americans during World War II, Internment Camp Newsletters, 1942-1945, and books.
Sources: Douglas W. Nelson. Heart Mountain: the History of an American Concentration
Camp, (Thesis) 1970; Heart Mountain Sentinel
Box 1
- Folder 1a - 1b -- Community
Council Meeting Minutes, 1944-1945
- Folder 2 -- Community Govt. Documents, 1943-1944
- Folder 3 -- Study Committee for the Opening of the West Coast, 1944
- Folder 4
-- Community Council Documents, 1944
- Folder 5 -- Community Laws, Codes, Ordinances,
and Instructions, 1943-1944
- Folder 6 -- Correspondence, 1943
- Folder 7 -- People of Heart Mtn.
vs.Tom Yamada, Case 181, 1944
