The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center is preparing to honor Simpson this summer, Higuchi said. Winter also grew up in northwestern Wyoming. In the committee meeting, he noted that growing up, he had ...

Few people willingly return to their old prison, but 92-year-old Sam Mihara did just that, recently returning to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in rural Wyoming. "Our family suffered a lot," ...

Heart Mountain was one of 10 relocation centers built in the U.S. in response to President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of 120,000 people of ...

POWELL — The absence of former U.S. Sen. Al Simpson at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center’s annual pilgrimage to Wyoming’s World War II internment camp, turned Smithsonian affiliated memorial and ...

A plan to feed the thousands of Japanese confined at Wyoming's Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II will be the topic of a talk on Monday, May 20, in Cody, Wyoming. Dakota Russell, ...

POWELL — A National Park Service study recommends that the World War II Japanese-American internment camp near here be considered for National Historical Landmark designation. The Heart Mountain ...