The Heart Mountain World War II Japanese American Confinement Site (also known as the Heart Mountain Relocation Center or the Heart Mountain Internment Camp) was constructed in the summer of 1942 as part of a larger government movement during WWII to house Japanese-Americans the United States Government perceived as a threat to national security. More than 10,000 people were incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Camp, located between the towns of Powell and Cody in Wyoming, and remained until its closure on November 10, 1945. At its peak, the camp's population was more than 10,000. Their forced relocation by the government meant they had to give up property such as houses, businesses, cars, and bank accounts, and leave their friends, jobs, and schools. This exhibit features historic newspapers written in both English and Japanese languages, historic photographs, drawings, artwork, videos, and other resources that highlight Wyoming’s only Japanese Internment Camp. Join Jessica Otto and Travis Pollok of the Wyoming State Library as we explore this important piece of United States history with free content accessible at any time to share with your students, colleagues, and more. Facilitated by Paige Bredenkamp of the Wyoming State Library.
Webinar recorded on August 16, 2024. Scroll down for the full transcript.
Paige: Hello! And Good Morning! Welcome to our webinar today. Let’s go places! Exploring the Wyoming Places Heart Mountain Japanese-American World War II Internment Camp digital exhibit. This is presented by Jessica Otto and Travis Pollok. I’m Paige Bredenkamp, I'm the E-Resources and school library consultant at the Wyoming State Library and I will be facilitating today’s presentation. The Wyoming state library has a suite of digital collections including Wyoming places where we will take a look at the Heart Mountain digital exhibit. I’ve included a link to the Wyoming Places website in the chat so if you want to follow along, please feel free to do so. Before we get started, I want to mention that this webinar is being recorded. I will send a link to each person who is registered but you can also access the recording after this webinar on the Wyoming State Library Youtube channel. Throughout the webinar, if you have questions please type them into the chat, and Travis and Jessica will try to answer them as they go along, however there will be a Q&A at the end of the presentation where we can unmute and ask as many questions as we would like. Again welcome, I’m going to turn it over to our presenters now to introduce themselves and share more about this Wyoming State Library digital exhibit.
Travis: Alright, thanks Paige. My name is Travis Pollok and I’m the Information Services Manager at the Wyoming State Library and I’ll be presenting today with Jessica.
Jessica: Hi everybody, I’m Jessica Otto I’m the research and statistics consultant at the Wyoming State Library. I’m going to get us started off here as Paige mentioned, the link is in the chat if you want to follow along but we’ll be at places dot wyo dot gov Which is the home page for our Wyoming Places database and our digital exhibits. Today’s webinar is going to be focused on the Heart Mountain World War II internment camp virtual exhibit. My colleague Travis is going to be doing a deep dive into the exhibit itself in a few minutes, but first I’m going to give you an overview of the places website which we’re looking at right now and show you the Heart Mountain related items in our database. Since this is the second places webinar that we’ve hosted I won’t go into too much detail about how to navigate every little thing on the website but I will show you briefly where you can find the first webinar so that you can look at that deeper dive into how to navigate everything. By the end of this webinar you’ll have a better understanding of the Japanese American relocation, camp life in Heart Mountain, and additional resources on how to find more information about Heart Mountain as well as what place it is and what it’s about. So what are we waiting for? Let's go places! So welcome or welcome back to places. You can access all of our resources from this homepage, so if you ever get lost, just click on the Wyoming Places Logo in the top left corner of the website to go back to the homepage. And, I am going to try and highlight my mouse here so you can see what I’m doing. Okay, there we go! For those of you who may be new to places, what is places? It’s an ongoing project at our Wyoming State Library to create an online resource about the place names of Wyoming and the history of those places. It was inspired by some of our reference librarians who received many questions about Wyoming places and the origin of those names from patrons from across the world. The purpose of Wyoming Places is to give the user information about the origin of the name of a place, a brief history of that place, and stories about it if we can find them. The website consists of two main parts: the website that we’re looking at right now, the home page that has a lot of fun facts or fun features that we’ll get into and the places database itself which you can access through the search browse magnifying glass button right here. So some of the fun features that are available on the Wyoming places website itself, you can access all of them from the home page this middle button right here, discover the origin of the State’s name, pretty self explanatory, but if you’ve ever wondered where the name Wyoming comes from, that will give you more information about it. The middle button on the right side right column, track the development of Wyoming on the map. Here we have a gallery of historic maps from eighteen sixty-five to nineteen thirty. Or actually nineteen forty two sorry we have added a few. The Wyoming places website and the database are always growing so check back often for changes. You can click on each of these maps to view a larger image of it and they will link back to their source and have a citation at the bottom of each page. Going back to the homepage here, the middle column top button, travel through time with the places calendar. Here you can pick any day on the three hundred and sixty six day calendar, because we do include leap day, and find information about Wyoming events that happened in history and occurred on that day. You’ll find links to the places database as well as links to the Wyoming State Library’s other digital collections and to some outside sources like museums, the American heritage center, stuff like that. So we do have a couple of places entries on the calendar today that we’re going to explore that relate to Heart Mountain. November tenth for example if you go to this page you can see all the events that we have here that have happened in Wyoming on that date of historical significance in on November tenth of nineteen forty five the last train load of internees left Heart Mountain and the camp was closed. If you click on Heart Mountain here it’ll take you to one of the entries in the data, in the database to give you more information about the location that’s being discussed on the calendar. The other day that we have an entry to look at December seventh. Which you can see here there’s two entries we’re looking at nineteen forty one which is the bombing of Pearl Harbor course talks about World War II and since Heart Mountain was, as it states here, another hurry up project but a significant event that occurred during World War II, its discussed there as well so you can find once again more information by clicking on the underlined words on the places calendar. Back on the home page, I’m going to show you the resources tab which if you go up here to the top of your screen and click on resources it’ll take you to a lot of reference materials that we have. You can search for place name, further place name information from these various resources but if you’re looking for stuff that’s found on our website you're going to be looking in the source material column here. You can find bibliography of the Wyoming place names, the history of Wyoming County Libraries, sources the sources cited, feature definitions, which I’ll explain a little more when we’re in the database, and then the help and FAQ, and I will show you when we’re in the database how an example of how we can use these resources. We use original sources for all of our places and information as well as published sources in the public domain. Names of sources are given throughout the website and database for those who want to do further research. We also linked online resources that relate to that specific place. They must be consistent with our focus the authoritative, persistent, and noncommercial and yeah sorry. Going back to the home page again. Today’s focus, there are three exhibits that have been curated by our past and present librarians that focus on some of our state’s most historic places, people, and political events. Our exhibits highlight both primary and secondary resources including historic photographs, newspapers, drawings, videos, and audio recordings from different periods of Wyoming’s history. They include the Wyoming statehood celebration exhibit, which you can find on the far left column in the middle row. The Wyoming statehood celebration exhibit takes users back to July twenty third eighteen ninety the day Wyoming celebrated achieving its statehood and the events that took place that momentous day the exhibit features historic newspapers, reenactments of speeches that were given during the statehood celebration at the capitol, it features historic photographs of the members and dignitaries that attended the celebration and other historic documents. It’s a really cool dive into Wyoming’s biggest day. The Wyoming prisoner of war camps exhibit, the bottom row here on the far left side of the column goes over how the United States housed over 436,000 access prisoners of war and POW camps located throughout the country during World War II. From 1942 to 1946 Wyoming established nineteen large and small camps throughout the state to house Italian and later German prisoners of war. This online exhibit features historic newspapers written by the POWs while interned in the Douglas and Cheyenne camps that are written in German, historic photographs, a collection of camp artifacts, a map with all of the POW camp locations in Wyoming that as well link back to our places database, and other resources highlighting this little known fact about Wyoming’s history. And our focus today is the Heart Mountain World War II Interment Camp Exhibit, the top row of that left column. The camp was established in the Summer of 1942 between Cody and Powell Wyoming. It was part of a larger government movement in the months following the United States formal entrance into World War II to house Japanese-Americans the United States government perceived as a threat to national security. During World War II, more than ten thousand people were incarcerated at the Heart Mountain camp and remained at the camp until its closure on November tenth which we saw on the places calendar. This exhibit features historic newspapers, photographs, drawings, videos, other resources that will be highlighted today by Travis during the deep dive into that exhibit. Now I’m going to show you how this exhibit plays into our database and how they work together. So we’re going to go to the search Browse magnifying glass button to go to the places database. You can see here the default is the map view. And like I mentioned earlier in the first webinar we went into a lot of detail on how to use this database so I will just be doing kind of a general search here today. So, first thing you should know is that if you type in at the big search bar at the top of the screen, it's going to search the content of all of the places. Descriptions, histories, names, everything. If you want to search by, if you want to search by name, title specifically for any Wyoming place, you’re going to want to use the name searchbar. Which is what I’m going to do today because as you’ll see, there’s three search results for Heart Mountain by name and eleven for Heart Mountain by description. Which doesn’t necessarily use the two words for Heart Mountain it would search for each. So it depends on what you’re looking for but for today’s purposes we’re going to search by name. Update search filters to run the search, and there are two locals and one summit. We can see it under the feature type on the left hand side of your screen. You can see them pop up on the map up here in the North West part of the state. And you can zoom in and see an icon for each item. A little mountain representing the summit, and then another little icon representing the locals. I’m going to go into list view today and get off the map so it's a little easier to navigate when we know exactly what we’re looking for. So you can see here we have Heart Mountain. This is for the future category land feature, it is a feature type we saw on the left as the summit. It gives the elevation, description, the county that it’s in, other names that it might go by and then said origin of the name. And then also, which is new to places that we’ve just recently added is the exhibit link. So you can find more information about stuff that’s related to Heart Mountain in this instance because it is the mountain itself and not the camp that’s also in places. You can click here to go straight to the exhibit which is just trying to make it an easier connection for our users to bounce back and forth. You can also see Heart Mountain in Park County. This is the local it is about the established post office that was created in 1947 and then discontinued in 1953 when there weren’t as many people living around Heart Mountain. Finally down here at the bottom we have the Heart Mountain relocation center. And you might have noticed that these are listed in alphabetical order to help you with your search. So the Heart Mountain relocation center again will link back to the exhibit so you can find more information about it, has a brief history the category feature is manmade features and it has suggestions for more reading as well. If you click on the photo of any of the places items it will bring up a larger view of the photo and all of that metadata is going to move to the right side of the page so you can still access it. You can click through each photo that’s available in the system. And then if you ever want to come back to that specific item without having to search through the database again you can click on the permanent link and bookmark that if you’re research and such. The exhibit link once again is going to take you straight to the exhibit so that you can find out more information. We’re really excited about that development, we’re hoping to add it to the other items that are related to exhibits as well. Now I’m going to show you an example of finding a citation through that resources page. But it wasn’t this one. You could do it on that one I just had it prepared with this one, The Heart Mountain Summit. So you can see in the description and in the origin of the name we have decisions and then followed by the year. So I’m going to go, the database opens in another tab by default so you can just go back to the homepage tab without having to close out of the search that you’ve done. And I’m going to go to resources and sources cited in Wyoming Places. It will scroll down because the bibliography and the sources cited are on the same page for ease of use, but that link will take you halfway down the page so don’t freak out. So it cited decisions so I’m going to go to D. And it’s going to scroll down to D for me. And then it says decisions on Geographic Names in the United States 1890 to 1999 and it says that it will be shown as decisions year. So that is our reference for the Heart Mountain origin of the name as well as the description of Heart Mountain that we have in our database. Are there any questions so far regarding the database or the website?
Paige: Nothing in the chat either.
Jessica: Okay cool! I will close out of the database now then. And I will show a little more information about the home page real quickly before we get into the awesome exhibit that we have at hand. So now that you’ve seen the database and the website and you know how to explore places, if you have any recommendations to add or any edits to suggest, we have a really cool new feature that you can use this google form that’s listed on the home page to submit it to our team for consideration this goes for the database, the exhibits, any resources you might have found that you think are worth adding as well as the places calendar if you’re like hey if this historic event happened you don’t have it here but I think it should be on there, let us know. This google form will open in another picture. We ask that you include your email just so that we can contact you if we need more information about that suggestion and let you know if it goes through like hey you can find it online now. Once you click whether you would like to request an addition or an edit to the database or the historic calendar then it will take you off to that specific questions for each so it's not just a single question google form. And as Paige mentioned, this webinar is being recorded you’ll be able to find this video on our Wyoming state library youtube channel as well as the link is being sent out to our participants. But it’s also available on the places website so if you go to the help page once again you can find frequently asked questions, helpful tips for searching the database, that google form is listed here as well, feature definitions which I go into more in the first webinar. But you can click on the webinars and Video Tutorials, you’ll see that here we have the current one we’re currently recording listed and then the original one that first aired in April which is the Near and Far: How to Utilize the Wyoming Places Digital Collection Which is embedded here so you can watch it right here without ever having to leave the places website if that's what you’d like to do. And with that I’ll hand it over to Travis to take you on a tour of the Heart Mountain exhibit.
Travis: Alright, thank you Jessica. So right now I’m going to share my screen here.
Jessica: Yeah.
Travis: And this is as Jessica mentioned, our Heart Mountain Japanese-American World War II Internment Camp exhibit this is one of three exhibits that Jessica went through on our Wyoming Places collection. Just a quick note about the name, if you’re familiar with Heart Mountain, the camp today, or the museum and historics out there, you’ll notice that it has a different name. So today it's called the Japanese-American confinement site. But during World War II these camps were referred to either as relocation camps or Japanese-American internment camps so that’s what we’ve used mostly in the database on our resources page there will be a little bit more information on why it has changed names over these last few years and what the reasoning for it is. But today we’re going to go through the database just a little quick information that we have here. This is what the main page will look like after you click off of the Wyoming Places homepage. Just to get you familiar, Heart Mountain was constructed in the summer of 1942 it is located between the towns of Powell and Cody Wyoming it was part of a larger governmental movement there were a total of 10 relocation and internment camps throughout the United States. This was done to relocate people of Japanese ancestry away from the west coast of the United States after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The US government thought that there was some security concerns that the Japanese-American population would side with the Japanese during World War II. So this was kind of a lot of fear and anxiety motivated during this time. Heart Mountain at its height, had over 10,000 people incarcerated in the camp, and this exhibit features a wealth of primary and secondary sources this includes our historic newspapers, just to mention these were written in both English and Japanese. Photographs, drawings, artwork, and videos. And to highlight Wyoming’s only internment camp, Japanese-American internment camp during World War II, it highlights kind of a unique aspect of Wyoming History as well. So we’ll kind of take a tour of this homepage as we scroll down. These are some of the sources listed in the database starting with the drawings that depict camp life here. This you’ll see on the right side of the screen. Scrolling down a little bit more we have a link to the Wyoming Chronicles video which is made through Wyoming PBS. And that account discusses what the Heart Mountain camp was in a little bit more detail, shares information on what the museum up at Heart Mountain is. Again we got some more photos here. Then we’ve got historic photos of the camp that were made. And as you can see in the background there's a rather tall looking mountain there. This was actually called Heart Mountain and is an eight thousand, over eight thousand foot tall mountain. This is what the camp was named for if you're wondering why it was named Heart Mountain. And a couple more historic photos so this is just kind of a quick overview of the different types of sources that we’ll actually see in the exhibit itself. If you scroll back up to the top up here, you’ll notice that there are nine different tabs. We're going to go through each of these tabs today and kind of give you what information is available and what resources are available in the exhibit. So to kind of start out with we’re going to click on the first tab here which is about relocation. So this kind of talks about what the relocation was. So on February nineteenth 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 and what this did was it authorized the removal of all people of Japanese ancestry whether they’re American citizens or not at the time and to move them away from the west coast of the United States and relocate them to war relocation authority camps also called WRAs. And the exhibit here on this page if we click on this listing here, this is a listing from San Francisco, in California and this was instructions on how if you are of Japanese ancestry to report for relocation. If we go back here and keep scrolling down a bit and click on this little text icon here we will get a copy of executive order 9066 that was signed by President Roosevelt at the time. This just details what relocation was, what is going to be, and how it was going to be enacted. Then on the screen here you will see a picture of what the Heart Mountain camp looked like. This picture was taken in 1943 at one of the camp’s higher points where there were over 10,000 people were incarcerated as you can see Heart Mountain in the background up here as well as, well as some of the buildings and how the camp was laid out. What is kind of hard to see in this photograph is the camp was surrounded by multiple rounds of barbed wire, had guard towers and was patrolled actively by US army guards. So people that were incarcerated could only leave with certain permissions from the camp so they were really confined in order to stay in these camps. As I mentioned earlier there were a total of ten relocation camps located around the United States. These were places like California, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming with the Heart Mountain camp. If we scroll down a little bit more on this page we’ll see some drawings that depict relocation and the first arrivals at the Heart Mountain camp. One of the exciting things is we also have historic newspapers which we’ll get into in a second on this page. But, in total there were 120,000 people that were relocated from the west coast of the US into camps like Heart Mountain. And if we scroll down here and click on this little newspaper, if you click on any of these newspapers through the exhibit that you see here, it takes you to our Wyoming digital newspapers collection. Heart Mountain had a camp newspaper that was called the Heart Mountain Sentinel it ran for 166 issues with the first issue being produced in October of 1942 and it ran all the way until the camp’s closure in 1945 there were a total of 6,000 people that received the Heart Mountain sentinel on a weekly basis during, while they were interned at the camp and during World War II, but this newspaper was also distributed out to the towns of Cody and Powell so there were some subscribers outside of the camp as well. This reported mostly about camp life and camp activities but also had kind of national news events as well. And then this is part of like I said our Wyoming newspapers collection in Wyoming newspapers we have over 350 historic newspaper titles we have right around 5 million pages of content so this is another great resource if you're looking for more history or information about Wyoming. So if we go back to the exhibit here as you can see if you scroll back up one more time to the camp and the picture of Heart Mountain. Heart Mountain had over 467 buildings that made up the camp. These included offices, living quarters, shower and bath facilities, mess halls, laundry facilities, a hospital was established, a library, and also had several churches. If we scroll back up to the top now we’ve talked a little bit about relocation and why Heart Mountain was established. We'll get into some of the camp life and what life was like in the camp now. So if we click on our farming tab, and scroll down a bit. Most people who were confined to Heart Mountain spent time working inside or outside of the camp, residents of Heart Mountain were paid labor so they were paid for labor work in agricultural industry in Wyoming so that was an option for internees as well. They were allowed to set up their own government giving them some structure, but final say had to come from the head camp administration and officials that were run by the US army at the time. A really cool thing to note is Heart Mountain out of the ten relocation camps throughout the US, Heart Mountain was one of the most successful in the agriculture and farming industry. And if you scroll down a bit you can see the the newspaper article here that says food needs of 10,000 residents raised largely by their own efforts. In 1943 Heart Mountain produced over 1,000 tons of fruits and vegetables that were locally farmed. By 1944 that number rose to 2,500 tons of fruits and vegetables. Crops that were grown in the camp included Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Carrots, Cabbages, beans and peas. The shoshoni irrigation project as you can see in the second picture down here, on the bottom of the screen, was completed to bring water for agriculture into the camp and, besides growing and farming, pigs, cattle, and chickens were also raised as you can see the the nice sized pig on the screen. And if we scroll down a little bit more again we got some of the really neat drawings about about the farming and what that looked like at Heart Mountain. If you go down to the bottom of the page, instead of having to scroll all the way to the top and clicking on each of the tabs, you can also click on the next button here, and this will take you to our next tab which is education! So education was taken very seriously at Heart Mountain. They established their K-Twelve school, were set up, and the first year Heart Mountain graduated over fifteen hundred students from their high school. If we scroll over to the next tab, it’s called our medical tab. So Heart Mountain, on August 28 1942 established a hospital this treated over 5,500 people were treated in the camp at this time. They performed over 400 surgeries, and there were 550 babies that were delivered while the camp was in operation. There was a total staff of 150 people, mostly internees that worked at the camp, although they were overseen by a chief medical officer, and a corp of nurses. And these are some of the photographs and drawings from the hospital, at that time. And as you scroll up to the top, recreation. Recreation was a big part of the camp as well, as you can see on the right side of the screen, one of the most popular activities in the camp at the time was the boy scouts. Many of the internees brought that, had been boy scouts before being incurred and brought that with them to set up their own boy scout troop in the camp. Recreation also included movie theaters, sporting events, arts and crafts, and culture activities. So now from this page we’ll scroll down to look at some of the different recreational photographs and material that’s available. Ice Skating as you can see was also popular, they had a small pond that was used for water in the camp and when it froze in the winter ice skating was used. Sumo wrestling was also very popular as well as football! Heart Mountain had two different teams, the Jack Rabbits and the All Stars. So there were a whole bunch of different activities as you can see. Going on. So the next tab we’ll go through is Military Service. So initially, these same men, which were natural born citizens with Japanese ancestry, were considered unfit for military service. So they were denied permission to be in the United States military. Government policy changed a few years after the camp’s establishment and they, they offered for volunteers to join. Initially only 38 men from Heart Mountain volunteered to join the US military. When the draft was instituted 400 men from Heart Mountain were drafted with the total of 800 men during the camp issue were drafted out of Heart Mountain. These are, these men were sent to their own units made up of Japanese-Americans; this was the 442 regimental combat team and they served in Italy and Northern France during World War II. Looking up the 442 unit’s history, they are recognized as the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the United States Military. Which is really a very high honor for this the state will go through some of the awards and decorations. There were 18,000 men that served in the 442 entirely, they were made up of all Japanese-Americans from all relocation camps throughout the US. Like I said there were a total of 18,000 men in this unit. Out of those, there was 4,000 purple hearts that were awarded for, 4,000 bronze stars, 560 silver stars, the unit received over 7 different presidential unit citations for its actions during the war, as well as 21 medals of honor were received out of that. So a very impressive history record. This unit was active from mid 1943 to the very early part of 1945, so not a very long time period. And you can see the different articles, newspaper articles, that have been written on the unit during that time. And our next tab is the Estelle Ishigo tab. You’ve noticed all of these kind of amazing kind of drawings that have been on camp life, that have been throughout the exhibit. These are the work of Estelle Ishigo, and her husband Arthur that are pictured up here in the right corner. Estelle and Arthur were married in 1929 and they were living on the west coast. I think, I believe out in California, they had been married for thirteen years before the outbreak of World War II and the Japanese-American interment that was recorded. Arthur was of Japanese ancestry, so he had to report for confinement and relocation. Estelle was not but because they were married she decided to go with him into relocation and they both ended up at Heart Mountain. Estells’s background as being an artist she has done all of the drawing that you see in the database previously on different pages as well as the ones you are going to see below, and just a great work of what camp life was like and great primary source documents so we’ll scroll through some of those drawings now. All of these drawings are courtesy of the American Heritage center at the University of Wyoming. It’s quite a wealth of great information. Following the release from Heart Mountain, Estelle published all of her drawings in a book called Lone Heart Mountain, and in the 1990s there was a documentary done on her life. And this is just a few of the larger collection that is housed at the American Heritage Center. So now we’ve kind of talked about camp life and what relocation was and what camp life was like. So one of the last tabs that we have here for information is After the War. So in 1944 President Roosevelt suspended and rescinded executive order 9066 and the camps began to shut down and release their internees. Heart Mountain stayed in operation until November tenth 1945 and Jessica showed you kind of that place on the calendar earlier. When internees were released they were given twenty five dollars and a train ticket to wherever they wanted to go. When they were forced into relocation, they lost most of their livelihoods. Most lost all of their property that they had owned, they lost their businesses, houses, bank accounts, anything like that, so they really had to go in and start life over again. Which was just, I can’t even imagine the tough nature of that. By the 1980s President Jimmy Carter created the commission of wartime relocation and internment of civilians, also known as the CWRIC and they were tasked with producing an official government study of executive order 9066 and its impacts and actions on Japanese-Americans during the time. By 1982 the CWRIC reports that, concluded that the incarceration of Japanese-Americans was unjustified and the decision of, to incarcerate was based on race prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership. The commission recommended that the US government issue an official apology and issue payments up to twenty thousand dollars to each of the surviving members of Heart Mountain. By 1988 President Ronald Reagan authorized the Civil Liberties Act, and this was based on the recommendation of the CWRIC committee. And then officially on November 21 1989, President George H. W. Bush signed the appropriations bill that authorized the payments to go to the former internees at all relocation camps as well as authorize the official government apology. So today, Heart Mountain is a national historic site. It is home to a museum and interpretive center, and they have just a wealth of information as well as you can tour some of the old camp buildings are still remaining. The hospital building that we mentioned before, is still around and can be toured today, as well as some of the barracks where the internees stayed and what was considered their homes while they were at the camp. And the very last tab that we have here, is our resources tab. Again, have a great collection of resources here that you can find out about why the name has changed over the years, and a little bit more information about the Heart Mountain camp. If we scroll down and look at the further resources tab here, we can see links to the confinement site and the interpretive center which is the museum, and if you’re looking for more information the american heritage center, national parks, northwest college’s library has a lot of good resources and information for further reading and more detailed history, as well as we have listed the Wyoming Chronicle PBS video as well. So before we kind of conclude this and open it up to any questions anybody has. I do want to give some special recognition to a former WSL staff member. Thomas Ivie created this guide and was very instrumental in getting the Heart Mountain Sentinel Newspapers for our Wyoming newspaper collection as well as helping to build this exhibit. Tom passed away in 2021 so this exhibit and some of the other ones in places are dedicated to him. So I want to thank everybody for attending the webinar today and I will turn it back over to Paige in just a second and we’ll open it up to any questions. But thanks to everyone again who are exploring a unique and kind of very unknown kind of part of Wyoming history but also World War Two history. Thanks again and I will turn it back over to Paige.
Paige: Thank you Travis and, and Jessica. This is, this is free to use with classes or any kind of sharing that you wish to use. And again you can see the contact information for Travis and Jessica if you have any more questions please don’t hesitate to contact them. And with that I will bid you adieu and have a wonderful weekend.
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