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Manzanar - (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) by Jane Wehrey (Paperback)

 Manzanar - (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) by  Jane Wehrey (Paperback)
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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<br>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<br>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.<br>Today Manzanar National Historic Site commemorates this and all of Manzanar s unique communities."

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