Only Wind and Dust: Exploratory Archival and Survey Research at the Heart Mountain Root Cellars
Author(s): Clara G. Steussy
Year: 2018
Summary
The root cellars of Heart Mountain represent a key relationship between a community of approximately 10,000 people of Japanese descent and the barren landscape they ultimate turned into one of the most successful agricultural projects among the camps. Although most physical remains of the Heart Mountain camp have vanished, one of the incarceree-built root cellars remains largely intact, and the other, although collapsed in the 1950s, remains easily identifiable today. This paper presents the results of anexploratory survey conducted in the root cellar area, following up on a study by the Wyoming Historic Preservation Society in 2016, supplemented by archival research at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. I then discuss plans for continued research on the agricultural program at Heart Mountain and what it might reveal regarding the relationship of these forcibly relocated people to the landscape of Heart Mountain.
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Only Wind and Dust: Exploratory Archival and Survey Research at the Heart Mountain Root Cellars. Clara G. Steussy. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441283)
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Keywords
General
Agriculture
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Japanese American
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Root Cellar
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
World War II
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 608