As Rugged as the Terrain: CCC Boys, Federal Convicts, and World War II Alien Internees Wrestle with a Mountain Wilderness explores some intriguing history of Idahos wild and scenic Lochsa River. In 1893 this site, at turbulent Canyon Creek, was a footnote in the saga of the ill-fated Carlin hunting party. Next, in 1933, it held nearly 200 tent-dwelling Civilian Conservation Corps recruits, most from New York State. The antics of these city slickers provide colorful insights into CCC camps housing young men far from home.

As Rugged as the Terrain (Asian American Comparative Collection Research Report)

History

Priscilla Wegars

Americas

Caxton Press

Polly Bemis, the mistakenly named "Lalu Nathoy" of books and film, was forcibly brought to the United States, and to Idaho Territory, in 1872 when she was just eighteen. In 1894 she married a Euroamerican man, Charlie Bemis, and they moved to a mining claim on the remote Salmon River; Charlie died in 1922 and Polly died in 1933. Since her death, Polly Bemis's life has been greatly romanticized. Supposedly, she was a prostitute, "Hong King" was her Chinese owner, and Charlie Bemis "won her in a poker game." Not one of these statements is true. Polly's life was genuinely fascinating, and it is time to both celebrate the known facts about her and allow the stereotypical, undocumented legends to die out. Book jacket.

Polly Bemis: The Life and Times of a Chinese American Pioneer

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Caxton Press in cooperation with the University of Idaho Asian American Comparative Collection

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press 
Imprisoned in Paradise exposes the United States’s little-known World War II rendition of Japanese Latin Americans, including men kidnapped from their homes in Peru, Panama, and Mexico and interned at the Kooskia Camp in Idaho. Unlike Japanese Americans who have received an official apology and redress from the U.S. government, the Japanese Latin Americans are still waiting to obtain justice for the violation of their human rights. Here, finally, is their story.

Imprisoned in Paradise: Japanese Internee Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp (Asian American Comparative Collection Research Reports)

University of Idaho Press

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