Wyoming's War Years 1941-1945

T. A. LARSON

Publication: The University of Wyoming, 1954, Laramie

First edition. 8vo. Inked inscription on the title page from the author: "For the J. B. Smith's at Christmas 1954. T. A. Larson." Tan cloth, titles stamped in brown on the spine, xii, 400 pp., frontispiece (map), preface, illustrated from photographs, portraits, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. This post-World War II history analyzing and describing Wyoming's efforts on the home front, detailing the Selective Service, Fort Warren, Casper Air Base, Douglas Prisoner-of -War Camp, Rationing, Civilian Defense, and an entire chapter devoted to the Heart Mountain Japanese Relocation Center. Wyoming opposed the locating of the Internment Camp, but the War Department located the camp in the Heart Mountain Irrigation Division of the Shoshone Project, supervised construction during the summer of 1942, and by the end of 1942 housed over 10,000 Japanese-Americans, with their sufferings and anxieties expressed in the Heart Mountain Sentinel a weekly newspaper published in-house. The author quotes poetry published in the Sentinel, how the Japanese Internment prisoners were allowed to do harvest work in Montana, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, clubs such as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and the Campfire Girls, organized troops for the children, as well as athletic teams. In addition, the author has detailed the local political battles over the Relocation Center, the unnecessary worries over sabotage (only one case filed over a Japanese-American who ventured beyond the boundary line to go fishing), and much more. A fine copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket with a shallow chip to head of spine and light wear to the corners and extremities.

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