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Title:
As rugged as the terrain : CCC "boys," federal convicts, and World War II alien internees wrestle with a mountain wilderness
Series Number:
no. 4.
Contents:
"City slickers" meet "the forest primeval": the Civilian Conservation Corps at Canyon Creek -- Politics of the road: federal prisoners arrive to build a "first priority military highway" -- No job for "pantywaists": convicts begin work on the Lewis-Clark Highway -- Escapades and escapes: frivolity and fleeting freedom -- "A regular rough-neck": Japanese internees at the Kooskia Interment Camp, 1943-1945 -- Seizing a Buddhist minister: how New York's Reverend Hozen Seki became a Kooskia internee -- Doctors and dentists: medical and dental care for the Kooskia Interment Camp -- Italians and Germans: other internees in the vicinity -- The camps at Canyon Creek: aftermath -- Federal prison camp employees and interment camp employees -- Known inmates at Federal Prison Camp No. 11 -- Interview with escapee William Lake -- Interview with escapee Willard H. Swift.
Physical Description:
xxxviii, 393 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Geographic Term:
Publisher:
Caxton Press,
Publication Date:
2013
ISBN:
9780870045400
Publication Information:
Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Press, 2013.
Call Number:
940.54 WEGARS
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