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The Eagles of Heart Mountain : A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America by Bradford Pearson [Pearson, Bradford] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The Impeccably Researched, Deeply Moving, Never-before-told Tale About A World War Ii Internment Camp In Wyoming And Its Extraordinary High School Football Team—for Fans Of The Boys In The Boat And The Storm On Our Shores. In The Summer Of 1942, The United States Government Forced 120,000 Japanese Americans From Their Homes In California, Oregon, Washington, And Arizona, And Sent Them To Internment Camps Across The West. Nearly 14,000 Of Them Landed On The Outskirts Of Cody, Wyoming, At The Base Of Heart Mountain. Behind Barbed Wire Fences, They Faced Racism, Cruelty, And Frozen Winters. Trying To Recreate Comforts From Home, They Built Buddhist Temples And Sumo Wrestling Pits. They Grew Chinese Cabbage And Daikon Radishes—yet There Was Little Hope. That Is, Until The Fall Of 1943, When The Camp’s High School Football Team, The Eagles, Started Its First Season And Finished It Undefeated, Crushing The Competition From Nearby Predominantly White High Schools. Amid All This Excitement, American Politics Continued To Disrupt Their Lives As The Federal Government Drafted Men From The Camps For The Front Lines—including Some Of The Eagles. The Young Men Faced A Choice To Either Join The
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- Author
- Bradford Pearson [Pearson, Bradford]
- Publisher
- Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781982107055
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Sports
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (373 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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