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Pearson, Bradford.
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Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Wyoming.
Football teams -- Wyoming -- History.
High school athletes -- Wyoming -- History.
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Pearson, Bradford.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Wyoming.
Football teams -- Wyoming -- History.
High school athletes -- Wyoming -- History.
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The
Eagles
of
Heart
Mountain
: a
true
story
of
football
,
incarceration
, and
resistance
in
World
War
II
America
/ Bradford Pearson.
by
Pearson, Bradford.
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
Call #:
940.531773 P361e
Subjects
Heart
Mountain
Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Wyoming.
Football
teams -- Wyoming -- History.
High school athletes -- Wyoming -- History.
ISBN:
9781982107031 (hc.)
Alternate title:
True
story
of
football
,
incarceration
, and
resistance
in
World
War
Two
America
Edition:
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Description:
x, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-373) and index.
Summary:
In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to
incarceration
camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of
Heart
Mountain
. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, many established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators -- yet there was little hope, until the fall of 1943, when the camp's high school
football
team, the
Eagles
, started its first season and finished it undefeated, crushing the competition from nearby, predominantly white high schools. Amid all this excitement, American politics continued to disrupt their lives as the federal government drafted men from the camps for the front lines -- including some of the
Eagles
. As the team's second season kicked off, the young men faced a choice to either join the Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided, and some were jailed for their decisions. This
story
honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a sweeping and inspirational portrait of one of the darkest moments in American history.
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