The Eagles of Heart Mountain : a true story of football, incarceration, and resistance in World War II America /

Pearson, Bradford,

The Eagles of Heart Mountain : a true story of football, incarceration, and resistance in World War II America / True story of football, incarceration, and resistance in World War two America True story of football, incarceration, and resistance in World War 2 America Bradford Pearson. - First Atria Books hardcover edition. - x, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-373) and index.

City of good neighbors -- Twinkletoes -- Furusato -- How to make it in America -- 9066 -- A question of blood -- Japanita -- 58 minutes -- Kannon-sama is crying -- "Trapped like rats in a wired cage" -- Everything is going along fine -- A determined effort to see the job through -- 13 days -- Warriors -- Coyotes -- Bulldogs -- 4-F -- Letter from Laramie County Jail -- Boys of summer -- Chasing perfection -- November 4, 1944 -- Going about like eagles.

A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp.

9781982107031 1982107030


Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)


Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Wyoming.
Football teams--History.--Wyoming
High school athletes--History.--Wyoming

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