AHJ_ah09804 Inventory of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) Records, 1943-1945 Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) Records Processed by Peter Hobson University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center
American Heritage Center Dept. 3824, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax: 307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc
2005

Univerisity of Wyoming

 Finding aid encoded by Mark L. Shelstad from Word 2000 July 2005 Finding aid is in English and Japanese Collection Summary Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) records 1943-1945 09804 1.25 cubic ft. (3 boxes) University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English and andJapanese Records of this World War II Japanese-American internment camp located near Cody, Wyoming. History of Heart Mountain Relocation Center

The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of ten camps mandated by the War Department in 1942 to detain Americans of Japanese ancestry. It was located between Cody and Powell, Wyoming. The first internees arrived in August 1942. The camp closed in November 1945.

 Scope and Content

Contains the Heart Mountain charter, community minutes, notes on resettlement plans, transcripts of a trial, and documents in Japanese. Editions of the "Heart Mountain Sentinel" and "Heart Mountain Sentinel Bulletin" are also included.

 Restrictions on Access

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

 Processing Information

Processed by Peter Hobson, February 1991. Revised by D. Claudia Thompson, June 2006.

 Preferred Citation

Item description, Box Number, Folder Number, Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) Records, Collection Number 09804, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

 Related Archival Material

A complete run of the Heart Mountain Sentinel, October 24, 1942-November 2, 1945, is available through Coe Library, University of Wyoming.

A complete run of the Heart Mountain Sentinel, October 24, 1942-November 2, 1945, as well as architectural drawings of the camp and oral histories concerning Heart Mountain, are kept by the Wyoming Department of Commerce, Division of Parks and Cultural Resources, Historical Research and Publications, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

 Existence and Location of Copies

Digital reproductions of select material from this collection are available at http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu:8180/luna/servlet/uwydbuwy~41~41.

 Access Terms Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Wyoming -- History -- 1919-1945 Newspapers World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians Heart Mountain sentinel Politics, Government, and Law Military Social Life and Customs People, Ethnicity, and Culture Japanese Americans Wyoming Container List Series I. Records 1943-1945

Arranged alphabetically. Contains council minutes, resolutions, relocation plans, a trial transcript, and documents written in Japanese.

 1 1 Charter of Heart Mountain with Council Enactments, 1943-1945 1 2 Community Council Committees 1943-1945 1 3 Community Council Minutes 1944 1 4 Community Council Minutes January - March, 1945 1 5 Community Council Minutes April - October, 1945 1 6 Community Government Report 1944 1 7 Relocation and Camp Closing 1945 1 8 Trial of Tom Yamada 1943-1945

Juvenile Assault

 1 9 Miscellaneous 1943-1945 1 10 Japanese Language Documents 1945 Series II. Newspapers, 1942-1945

Arranged chronologically. Editions of the "Heart Mountain Sentinel" and "Heart Mountain Sentinel Bulletin," including the Japanese language editions.

 2 Heart Mountain Sentinel 1942

With Japanese Editions

 2 Heart Mountain Sentinel 1943

With Japanese Editions

 3 Heart Mountain Sentinel 1944-1945

With Japanese Editions

 3 Heart Mountain Sentinel Bulletin 1945

Bound, with Japanese Editions, incomplete