As rugged as the terrain
Subtitle: CCC "boys," federal convicts, and World War II alien internees wrestle with a mountain wilderness
By: Priscilla Wegars ; with a foreword by Dick Hendricks
Contributors: Hendricks, Dick, 1909-
Series: Asian American Comparative Collection Research Report -- no. 4.; Asian American Comparative Collection Research Report -- no. 4.
Publisher: Caxton Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Caldwell, Idaho
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780870045400
Subjects: Concentration camps; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.).; Prisons; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Camp F-38 (Kooskia, Idaho); Kooskia Internment Camp (Idaho); World War, 1939-1945; Federal Prison Camp (Kooskia, Idaho); History
Description: xxxviii, 393 p. : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-363) and index.
Table of contents: title: "City slickers" meet "the forest primeval": the Civilian Conservation Corps at Canyon Creek; title: Politics of the road: federal prisoners arrive to build a "first priority military highway"; title: No job for "pantywaists": convicts begin work on the Lewis-Clark Highway; title: Escapades and escapes: frivolity and fleeting freedom; title: "A regular rough-neck": Japanese internees at the Kooskia Interment Camp, 1943-1945; title: Seizing a Buddhist minister: how New York's Reverend Hozen Seki became a Kooskia internee; title: Doctors and dentists: medical and dental care for the Kooskia Interment Camp; title: Italians and Germans: other internees in the vicinity; title: The camps at Canyon Creek: aftermath; title: Federal prison camp employees and interment camp employees; title: Known inmates at Federal Prison Camp No. 11; title: Interview with escapee William Lake; title: Interview with escapee Willard H. Swift.