





Reading List
Bazaldua, Barbara, Boy of Heart Mountain, illustrated by Willie
Ito. Random House, 2010.
Hansen, Arthur A. Japanese American World War II Evacuation
Oral History Project: Part IV: Resisters. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1995.
Hirabayashi, Lane. Hikaru Iwasaki: Resettlement Through the
Lens, University Press of Chicago, 2009
Hosokawa, Bill. Nisei: The Quiet Americans. New York, William
Morrow, 1969.
Inada, Lawson. Only What We Could Carry. Heyday Books,
Berkeley, California, 2000.
Inouye, Mamoru. The Heart Mountain Story: Photographs by
Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel of the World War II Internment of
Japanese Americans. Published by Author, 1997.
Ishigo, Estelle. Lone Heart Mountain. Los Angeles: Anderson,
Ritchie, & Simon, 1972.
Ito, Toshi. Memoirs of Toshi Ito. Author House, 2009
Larson, T. A. Wyoming's War Years, 1941-1945. Laramie:
University of Wyoming Press, 1954.
Mackey, Michael R. Remembering Heart Mountain: Essays on
Japanese American Internment in Wyoming. Powell, WY:
Western History Publications, 1998.
Martin, Ralph G. Boy From Nebraska: The Story of Ben Kuroki.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946.
McKay Susan. The Courage Our Stories Tell: The Daily Lives
and Maternal Child Health Care of Japanese American
Women at Heart Mountain. Powell, WY: Western History
Publications, 2002.
Muller, Eric L. Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the
Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2001
Muller, Eric L. American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese
American Disloyalty in World War II. University of North
Carolina Press, 2007
Nelson, Douglas W. Heart Mountain: The History of An
American Concentration Camp. Madison: The State Historical
Society of Wisconsin, 1976.
Oppenheim, Joanne. Stanley Hayami, Nisei Son. Brick Tower
Press, 2009
Sakauye, Eiichi Edward. Heart Mountain – A Photo Essay,
Reflection on the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Self-
published, 2000.
Yabu, Shigeru. Hello, Maggie. Yabitoon Books, 2007.
Documentaries
Okazaki, Steven. Days of Waiting. Set largely in Heart
Mountain, this documentary deals with the plight of a
Caucasian woman, Estelle Ishigo, who chooses to stay with
her Japanese American husband when he is sent to the
internment camp in Wyoming. (1999)
Nakamura, Robert. Something Strong Within. Contains
footage of camp life, including footage of Ben Kuroki’s 1944
visit to Heart Mountain
Omori, Emiko. Rabbit in the Moon. Using eyewitness
interviews and archival footage, this documentary gives an
overview of the tragic and profound events that impacted the
Japanese American community during World War II.
Abe, Frank. Conscience and the Constitution. This
documentary, produced for PBS, focuses on the Resisters of
Conscience, the movement among internees who were
willing to serve in the U.S. military but demanded first that
constitutional rights be restored to them and to their families.
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