On August 12th

~14,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Heart Mountain from 1942 to 1945. The documented date is 1942-08-12–1945-11-10. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Heart Mountain Interpretive Center'. It's the sort of fact that gives th

Heart Mountain began receiving incarcerees on August 12, 1942 — eventually confining some 14,000 people, most from California, on a windswept Wyoming flat beneath its namesake peak. It produced the largest draft-resistance movement of any camp — the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee — a fact the interpretive center now treats as central to its story.