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Manzanar (Images of America: California)

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Manzanar (Images of America: California)

East of the rugged Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley lies Manzanar. Founded in 1910 as a fruit-growing colony, it was named in Spanish for the fragrant apple orchards that once filled its

spectacularly scenic landscape. Owens Valley Paiute lived there first, followed by white homesteaders and ranchers. But with the onset of World War II came a new identity as the first of 10 "relocation centers" hastily built in 1942 to house 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citizens, removed from the West Coast. In

the face of upheaval and loss, Manzanar's 10,000 confined residents created parks, gardens, and a functioning wartime community within the camp's barbed-wire-enclosed square mile of flimsy barracks.

Today Manzanar National Historic Site commemorates this and all of Manzanar's unique communities.

Country	USA
Author	Jane Wehrey
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780738558080
ISBN	9780738558080
Label	Arcadia Publishing
Manufacturer	Arcadia Publishing
MPN	Illustrated
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	128
PartNumber	Illustrated
PublicationDate	2008-06-25
Publisher	Arcadia Publishing
ReleaseDate	2008-06-30
SKU	ACOUK_book_usedlikenew_0738558087
Studio	Arcadia Publishing

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