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DISCOVER THE HISTORY of Heart Mountain, where 14,000 Japanese men, women and children were interned during World War II

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Head north on any through street from U.S. 14-A to Fifth Street, then simply roll down the windows and let the delightful smells of the food court lead you by the nose to all the excitement in the northeast quadrant of Powell. talent show.

On Friday evening, July 26, monster trucks take to the arena at 7 p.m. in a repeat of a success introductory appearance at last year’s fair.

Saturday is parade day at the Park County Fair. The kids’ day parade will fill main street in downtown Powell Saturday morning, followed by the main fair parade in all its color and pageantry.

The ever-popular demolition derby closes out grandstand entertainment on Saturday, July 27 with a start time of 6 p.m. The crash ‘em up action is co-sponsored in a partnership between the fair and the Powell Lions Club.

Showing of livestock starts as early as 7:30 a.m. daily. Like all good county fairs, this one will host non-stop 4-H and FFA contests revolving around swine, sheep, rabbits, goats, cattle, horses and poultry.

Gate hours at the fairgrounds are 8 a.m. to 10

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Tribune photo by CJ Baker

p.m. Exhibit halls will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

As always, the Park County Fair will also bring out a wide variety of continuous entertainment by musicians, cloggers, a ventriloquist, a caricaturist and others on the free stage during the week.

There will be a wonderful array of foods from the dozens of vendors and exhibit halls filled with a little bit of everything from canned goods to cucumbers and culinary to clothing.

Featuring monster trucks, live music, classic fair food, farm animals and a demolition derby, the Park County Fair offers something for everyone of all ages.

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O F T H E P O W E L L VA L L E Y.

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Nestled between the picturesque Big Horn and Absaroka mountain ranges of Northwest Wyoming, Powell is a community historically rooted in agriculture. Early in the 20th century, homesteaders around Powell were rewarded with life-sustaining irrigation water when the United States Reclamation Service established the dams and canals of the Shoshone Irrigation Project. Today, what was once a barren, desert-like landscape has been transformed into fields and pastures capable of producing a rich variety of crops, forages and livestock. Farmers around Powell excel at producing malt barley, edible beans, sugar beets and alfalfa; while local ranchers proudly raise cattle, horses and sheep, sustainably and efficiently.

The Powell Valley Chamber of Commerce can help you learn more about the agriculture industry in and around Powell by customizing a tour for you or your group. Learn about area crops, livestock production, irrigation systems and more from area farmers and ranchers. Here at the Chamber we offer customized agriculture tours for groups, organizations, families and individuals. Area farmers and ranchers who participate in our agro tourism ventures realize the value that consumers place on visiting rural settings where food is produced, and they strive to provide tours that are informative, pleasurable and inspiring.

Powell was incorporated in 1909, having been named after Major John Wesley Powell who was one of the first to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River and former Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. Powell is only 20 minutes from historic Cody, Wyoming. Contact us and let us arrange a customized tour for you!

Customized tours for: Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations Tour area farms and ranches - See area crops, livestock production, irrigation systems and more

The Buffalo Bill Dam west of Cody, with the visitor center at left, is a key part of the water supply system for both irrigation and municipal water needs in the Shoshone River basin.

Tribune file photo by Ilene Olson

Shoshone Dam Once the world’s tallest concrete arch

Buffalo Bill Dam, registered as It’s known today as Buffalo Bill Dam in the Buffalo Bill Canyon west a National Historic structure and recorded as a National Civil Engineerof Cody.

But it was Shoshone Dam when ing Landmark, stands unique among it was constructed as an engineering structures of its kind.

It was dedicated as a National Civil marvel between 1906 and 1910.

The name was changed to Buf- Engineering Landmark in September falo Bill Dam in 1946 by an act of 1973. Then Commissioner of Reclamation Gilbert Stamm praised Buffalo Congress.

Today the Buffalo Bill Dam is even Bill Dam as a tribute to the architects, engineers and laborers taller than it was in 1910 who built the dam at Lives and limbs when it was initially completed as the world’s sacrificed during the turn of the century.

Engineers selected tallest concrete arch, then standing 328 feet dam’s construction the narrowest part of the solid granite Shohigh. Over a seven-year period between 1985 and 1992, the shone Canyon for the location of dam was raised by 25 feet to increase the dam. H.N. Savage, supervising the storage capacity of Buffalo Bill engineer for the reclamation service, called the spot “the perfect granite Reservoir by 74,000 acre-feet.

Buffalo Bill Dam is now 353 feet foundation” for the dam.

Before work could begin on the high. A modern visitors center has been constructed adjacent to the top dam, an 8-mile road from Cody to the of the dam. The visitors center tells site had to be carved along the rugthe story of dam construction and ged river bank. Much of the drilling the story of reclamation of more than for the construction was carried on 90,000 acres of Shoshone Reclamation during the winter, and drillers cursed low temperatures, high winds and Project lands downriver.

Powell is at the center of the Sho- anchor ice, as well as the huge granite shone Reclamation Project, where boulders tightly grouted to smaller land was opened to homesteading boulders resting on the bedrock.

The original contract was let for in 1907, even before the dam was completed. The Corbett Diversion $515,730 on Sept. 5, 1905. Before the Dam on the Shoshone River some 5 dam was completed at a total cost of miles below Cody allowed for water $929,658, two contractors had gone to be diverted into the Garland Canal bankrupt, and the project was finished which delivered the irrigation water to by a third contractor. Seven workthe first homestead units near Powell. ers were killed during construction, The Shoshone Project was the three lost limbs, three more lost their second U.S. Bureau of Reclamation eyesight and 28 others were crippled or mutilated. project authorized by Congress

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Craggy Bighorn Canyon is a slice of the Old West For any traveler on U.S. 14-A, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a “must see” scenic wonder.

The park straddles the Big Horn River from just east of Lovell into Montana. A lake created by Yellowtail Dam stretches more than 70 miles through the canyon.

Bighorn Canyon is administered by the National Park Service. A day pass into the area is $5, and can be purchased at an automated fee machine when entering the area.

The Cal S. Taggart Visitor Center at U.S. 14-A and U.S. 310 in Lovell sells annual passes.

Boating, fishing and other water sports are at the heart of Bighorn Canyon’s offerings. A trip down the canyon between walls and spires towering 500 feet above the water is a spectacular experience. Boats may be launched at Kane off U.S. 14-A, Horseshoe Bend and Barry’s Landing. Commercial boat rides are available.

At Devil’s Canyon overlook, visitors can get a dizzying view of the lake below.

The area is noted for the Pryor Mountain Wild

Tribune photo by Kevin Kinzley

Horse Range. It is home to a unique band of horses descended from mustangs brought to the area by Spanish explorers.

Four historic ranch sites tell the story of early ranching and of colorful characters such as Caroline Lockhart, a writer who bought a ranch in the 1920s and operated it until age and health forced her from ranching life.

The park contains more than 25 miles of hiking trails.

Camping is available in the park at developed and primitive sites. All campsites are first-come, first-served and no reservations are accepted. Some campsites are free.

Ranger programs are offered on weekend evenings through the summer at Horseshoe Bend.

Information about Bighorn Canyon NRA is available through the area’s website at nps.gov/ bica, or by contacting the visitor’s center in Lovell at 307-548-2251.

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offers up-close look at agriculture Powell’s roots are in agriculture and so is its future. As technology advances, its effects on agriculture can affect the whole community.

Powell was founded on agriculture from its beginnings as Camp Coulter in the heart of the Shoshone Irrigation Project. Visitors to the area can get a first-hand look at modern agriculture by touring area farms with the Powell Valley Chamber of Commerce. Tours generally include local farms producing sugar beets, pinto beans, barley and sometimes other specialty or unique crops.

Tours are offered for individuals or groups. At least two people must sign up for these individual tours. Group tours are offered for groups of five or more people. Tour prices do not include lodging or meals, but offer a guided tour of farms on the Powell flat. One-day tours include local farms and area attractions.

Two-day tours are offered that include one day of farm visits and a second day that includes a visit to the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center and the Pryor Mountain Mustang Center. Tours are given by appointment throughout the summer, but no tours will be given the last week of July during the Park County Fair.

The Powell Valley Chamber of Commerce operates a visitor center at 111 S. Day St. (P.O. Box 1258) in downtown Powell. The visitor center offers maps, tourist information about Park County attractions as well as Yellowstone National Park.

Call the chamber at (307) 754-3494 or (800) 325-4278 or email info@powellchamber.org

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Shizuiko Morita of Virginia, a former internee at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, is framed by historical, life-sized photos of internees while she reads information on another display at the new Heart Mountain Interpretive Center during the center’s grand opening in August 2011. The center is open daily from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through September. Tribune file photo by Ilene Olson

Heart Mountain Where?

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west of Powell at the intersection of Road 19 and U.S. 14-A.

More information is available by calling (307) 754-8000.

The visitor center is open as follows: WINTER HOURS

Nov. 1 to May 1 Wednesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

SUMMER HOURS

June 1 to Sept. 30, open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Visits at other times may be available by appointment

Admission: » Adults $7 » Senior/students $5 » Under 12 admitted free

A look inside internment camp

A visit to the center may begin with a video, “All You Can The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center west of Powell is both a look back to the atmosphere of World War II -era politics Carry,” which opens with a wartime sequence of Japanese and a look ahead to a world where better understanding could fighter planes. Visitors will hear internees who experienced the camp as teenagers and young adults talk of their reaction prevent similar actions.

The interpretive center, built to recall barracks constructed to Pearl Harbor and of their experiences as internees.

They will then travel through time, starting with a glimpse at the camp to house Japanese people removed from their homes by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order of the lives of internees before the war, and proceed through 9066, is at the site of the original camp entrance and admin- the angry reaction to Pearl Harbor, the evacuation to the camps and the day-to-day life at Heart Mountain. istration buildings.

The military service of internees is noted, including the The center celebrated its grand opening in August 2011, hosting former internees, their families, and dignitaries stories of Joe Hayashi and James Okubo. Hayashi fought in including Tom Brokaw, former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., Italy, giving his life, and was awarded a Silver Star. Okubo also and former U.S. Congressman and Transportation Secretary served in Italy and also won a Silver Star. Both decorations Norman Mineta, who met Simpson as a Boy Scout at the were upgraded to the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2000.

Another story highlights Clarence Uno, who served AmerHeart Mountain Relocation Camp. Mineta was interned with his family and a Boy Scout in a camp troop. Simpson was a ica in World War I and was granted citizenship. Despite his active membership in the American Legion, he was interned, Cody Boy Scout.

“What you are doing here is drawing that line in the sand and died in the camp. Legion members from Powell and Cody to say that never again will there be something like what hap- participated in his funeral.

The story of those who refused to serve while their families pened at Heart Mountain and other relocation camps,” said Mineta during a grand opening ceremony attended by more were interned is also part of the exhibit, along with the stories of H Epeople.

A RT M O U N TA I N I N T E R PR ET IV E L Ethe Aloss RN I NG CEN T E ways.

R those who protested of their civil rights in other than 1,200 The tour ends with the release of the internees and their Outside, a replica of the entrance gate and native landscaprepatriation to their West Coast homes. It touches on post-war ing evoke the feel of the original camp.

Inside, museum exhibits feature photographs and artifacts accomplishments of the internees and subsequent reunions that recreate the camp with an authentic appearance and feel. and activities.

The issues of civil liberties and justice surrounding the Life-size cutouts created from photographs, some taken more than 70 years ago, give life to the people who lived at the historical incident are presented.

At the end of the tour, visitors can stop by the reflection relocation center.

Water-stained walls and piles of dust in the corners of room, where large windows offer a view of Heart Mountain and the area once occupied by the camp. replicated barracks rooms recall the hasty construction.

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TO YELLOWSTONE One of the best things travelers will find on their 14-A adventure between Burgess Junction and Yellowstone National Park are two especially enjoyable stretches of the highway itself.

On the east end, from Burgess Junction across the top and down the Big Horn Mountains’ west face switchbacks to the bottom, is a drive that offers among the most breathtaking vistas to be found anywhere. But equally appealing — to driving enthusiasts and especially those in a sports car or astride a motorcycle — is the design of the road itself.

Initially named Wyoming Wonderland Way, a moniker that earned Powell resident Pat Deming a hundred bucks in a naming contest, the mountainous east end of U.S. 14-A opened with a dedication ceremony on June 24, 1983.

During construction, all 57 miles of the route from Burgess Junction to Lovell, which took 19 years from start to completion, required 17 separate highway contracts and came with a price tag of $23.5 million. By itself, the 5.5 miles from bottom to top of the west face of the mountain near Lovell cost $11.5 million.

In the time it took for this marvelous feat of engineering and construction to be completed, three different governors had served the citizens of Wyoming.

The marvelous curves and grades make for a great driving experience — within the confines of the liberal speed limits, of course — whether going up or coming down.

Signs on the serpentine downward course suggest lower gears and it’s solid advice. The brake pedal is best left alone on the descent except for a tap or two from time to time as needed.

Let the transmission hold you back when descending and save the brakes in case you really, really need them.

Awaiting 14-A adventurers on the west end of their journey to Yellowstone National Park is a wide and smooth North Fork Highway.

Beginning at the Shoshone National Forest boundary west of Cody near the community of Wapiti, and continuing from there to Yellowstone’s east gate, is a highway that required three independent phases of construction.

This piece of road is far less vertical and winding than its counterpart on the west slope of the Big Horns, and in fact climbs gently uphill to the east gate of the park. People, campgrounds and guest lodges are much more in evidence, too, but don’t be fooled: the drive through Wapiti Valley to the tiny community of the same name, then on west through the Shoshone National Forest to Yellowstone, is home to fascinating rock formations, mountain river views, world-class wild trout fishing and an abundance of wildlife — from mountain blue birds to moose and grizzly bears — that are all second to none.

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On a wind-swept plateau nearly 10,000 feet in elevation, the Medicine Wheel stands as a sacred site and source of spiritual power to Native Americans.

The arrangement of local limestone rocks in the shape of a wheel atop the Big Horn Mountains swirls amid curiosity and controversy over its origins as well as present day use of the national historic landmark.

“We believe that it’s a source of power,” said Francis Brown, a Northern Arapahoe tribal elder.

Astronomical and calendar functions served by the wheel are secondary to the site’s source of

religious power to Native Americans, says Gregory Campbell, a University of Montana anthropologist.

Campbell believes the arrangement of stones in an 80-foot diameter circle with 28 “spokes” radiating from a central cairn should be called “a sacred universe” to native peoples.

After years of negotiations by various Native American tribes with federal officials, the Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark site was expanded to 4,080 acres last year.

The U.S. Forest Service administers the site,

which is in the Bighorn National Forest.

Brown said Native Americans saved the wheel from “being destroyed by tourism” due to the erosion caused by so many people at the site. The site will be “open to anybody, but you have to walk,” he said.

People must walk about a mile to the wheel from a parking area.

Visitors can reach the Medicine Wheel by turning north off U.S. 14-A near the Bald Mountain campground 34 miles east of Lovell. A sign reading “Medicine Wheel Archeological Site” indicates the turnoff with the white dome of a Federal Aviation Administration radar station visible at the turnoff.

The road is usually clear of snow by the end of June.

Visitors are also asked not to go to the wheel during certain times when Native American religious ceremonies are conducted, such as at the summer solstice.

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What better to break up the days in the car than a few whacks on the local golf course.

At Powell, the golf is more than just another “local” layout. It’s golf designed to challenge and entertain the aficionados of the sport with two entirely different sides of an 18-hole course.

The back nine was redesigned and rebuilt in a massive makeover in 2003, and the vastly enlarged greens are a prime feature.

But the big greens are the singular distinguishing characteristic. Putting is a challenge.

The huge, undulating greens have three-putt written all over them. If that’s not enough, the well-placed and plentiful sand traps give the golfer plenty to think about.

On the other side of the course, the front nine layout was completed in the mid-1990s and reflects the influence of present-day golf architecture.

It’s clearly a case of “welcome to target golf ” on the front side, an outward circuit into desert-like sagebrush and rock country.

Even though water is very much at a

premium in the upper rim of the valley, the course’s signature hole, No. 4 brings the wet stuff into play on a dramatic par 3. Golfers better hope the wind isn’t blowing.

The front side finishing hole, No. 9, is another tantalizing test. A wide, usually downwind fairway beckons off the tee on this par 5. But to get to the large ninth green, the golfer is faced with a second-shot decision. A wide drainage ditch lurks some 140 yards from the green. Golfers must pick their poison: let ‘er rip and try to carry the ditch on the second shot, or play it close to the vest and lay up short.

The Powell Golf Course is a public course and welcomes non-member, green fee players. The complex includes a clubhouse, pro shop and a fleet of carts.

The Powell Golf Club sits 7 miles east of the City of Powell off Wyoming Highway 114.

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Park County is as proud as punch of its annual summer fair, and U.S. 14-A travelers are more than welcome to join locals for tons of fun.

All it takes is to be passing through Powell the week of July 23-27.

This year’s fair — “Fun for the Whole Herd!” — features evening performances in front of the grandstand Tuesday through Saturday.

The Park County Fair entertainment performances open with free admission and an evening of raucous pig mud wrestling at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 23. The carnival officially opens the midway Wednesday, July 24 at noon and will continue daily through Saturday.

Live concert moves to Wednesday, July 24 on this year’s fair program. The feature event of the fair brings the rock band 38 Special to the Powell stage for a 7:30 p.m. show. With 38 Special, be ready for some muscular guitar work and a blend of hard rock and melodic guitar-oriented pop.

38 Special has been on the American rock music scene for nearly 40 years. The band was formed by neighborhood friends Don Barnes and Donnie Van Zant in 1974 in Jacksonville, Fla. The early ’80s saw 38 Special break into the bigtime on the national rock charts. The group’s breakthrough hit was “Hold on Loosely” in 1981, followed by “Caught Up in You” in 1982 and “If I’d Been the One” in 1983 which both climbed to No. 1 on Billboard magazine’s Album Rock Tracks chart.

In 2007, 38 Special was the opening act for Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hank Williams Jr.’s Rowdy Frynds Tour, and in 2008, 38 Special filmed a CMT Crossroads special with country singer Trace Atkins.

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shizuiko Morita of Virginia, a former internee at the Heart Mountain relocation Center, is framed by historical, life-sized photos of internees while she reads information on another display at the new Heart Mountain interpretive Learning Center. The center will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through september. tribune photo by Ilene olson

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remembering the events of the war, including the internment of Japanese-Americans

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Heart Mountain camp was third largest city in Wyoming

Opening of new Heart Was it worth it?

Mountain Interpretive I say yes.

Learning Center celebrated Japanese internees regarded U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye

♦ February 19, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, forcing 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry — most American-born citizens — to move from their West Coast homes to relocation camps. ♦ June 1942 Work begins on the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp near Powell. “So many carloads of lumber have been taken from local yards — yards at Powell, Cody, and neighbor towns as far as Billings — are almost denuded,” reported the Powell Tribune on June 25.

Work is completed by early August. ♦ august 12, 1942 The first 292 Japanese-Americans arrive at Heart Mountain. At its peak, the camp houses 10,767 internees, making it, at the time, the third-largest city in Wyoming. ♦ november 10, 1945 The last train departs from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. ♦ august 10, 1988 Sen. Al Simpson, R-Wyo., and Rep. Norman Mineta, D.-Cal., sponsor the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, a law that acknowledged the fundamental injustices of the internment of Japanese-Americans. ♦ 1996 The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation forms.

Local leaders include John Collins, Dave Reetz and Pat Wolfe. The foundation goes on to purchase 50 acres of land at the original camp site, restore the camp’s military honor roll and acquire a significant collection of artifacts, oral histories, photos and historic papers. ♦ september 2000 Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer and Powell Mayor Jim Milburn send letters to surviving Heart Mountain internees and their families, intended to “acknowledge the difficulties and hardships faced by internees and the lack of consideration given to those at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.” ♦ June 23, 2005 A walking tour of the Heart Mountain camp is dedicated, named in honor of Setsuko Saito Higuchi, a former internee who served on the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Board of Directors and Advisory Board. ♦ February 1, 2007 Heart Mountain camp site officially named a National Historic Landmark. ♦ august 20, 2011 Heart MountainInterpretive InterpretiveCenter Learning Center isand dediHeart Mountain is dedicated cated opens to the public.ofHundreds of guests, opens and to the public.

Hundreds guests, including former including former internees, attend the opening of internees, attend the opening of the 11,000-square foot, the 11,000-square foot, $5.5 million facility between $5.5 million facility between Powell and Cody.

Powell and Cody.

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“They could put up a barrack in 58 minutes,” LaDonna Zall said. A 20foot by 120-foot barrack contained six eyes.

By iLeNe OLsON apartments. More than 450 barracks Those and many other injustices were Tribune News Editor spread across the camp. experienced by Japanese-Americans — Zall, who was 10 years old when aughter and humor were common many of whom were second-generation Americans after Japan’s War camp began that summer. during events the 1945, on theWorld relocation she watched the dispersal of internees Between Augustcommemorating 1942 and November more —struction Heart Mountain Interpretive II attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on from the camp in November 1945, thannew 14,000 Japanese-Americans were brought into The adjacent Vocation railroad siding and existing Learning Center over the weekend, but Dec. 7, 1941. of Reclamation irrigation developments likely became involved with the Heart and overall out of the Heart Mountain RelocationRegardless Camp. Bureau of how long they had been the theme was very serious: the United States, 120,000 Japanese-choice, according to inforthe location Mountain Wyoming Foundation in At its peak, 10,767 in- influenced Never again.the World War II center held in Americans living on from the the WestNational Coast Park Service, which also “What making you areitdoing here is drawing mation 1999. The foundation began in 1996 ternees, the third-largest city in Wyoming. that line in the sand to say that never were considered a threat to national sepointed out that the camp was wired for electricity. as a local effort to preserve the site, However, these residents were never anything curity and sent by railroad to 10 relocaagain will there be something like what With only a few months time to build the municiwhere few buildings but an abunother than temporary.

Officials in Powell, Cody and happened at Heart Mountain and other tion camps in the interior of the country. pal infrastructure 10,000 people, workers flooded Heart Relocation for Camp, dance of history remained.

Wyomingcamps,” made sure that, discouraging the in-Mountain relocation said of Norman Mineta, located between and Cody, was former U.S. Congressman and former intoPowell the area.

The foundation’s early local leadternees from making the area their permanent home. years for a total U.S. Transportation Secretary — and a home for up to three “It seems that any and all who want work find ers, John Collins, Dave Reetz and Pat Wolfe, were the first to seek a way to Now, the internees’ stories are told in the Heart former internee at the camp — during of 14,000 Japanese-Americans, rangquick employment in the building of this gigantic commemorate the camp.

Mountain Center, which opened 2011.infants inginfrom to great grandparents. the grand Interpretive opening ceremony Saturday center,” wrote “They did a tremendous amount of work to make sure the interpretive One ofMore 10 nationwide, Heartat-Mountain Re- inrelocation They lived barracks, surrounded by the Tribune in that June morning. than 1,200the people barbed wire edition. and watched by armed tended theCamp ceremony.

“From Powell and Cody and other Big Horn center opened,” Zall said. “It couldn’t have occurred without them.” location opened amid fear and uncertainty in towers. again should American citizens Basin towns the labor supply has been requisitioned Former internees and others, including former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson and inNever the months following the Dec. 7, 1941guards bombing About 250 former internees, most be singled out because of their nationas if with a fine-tooth comb.

As a consequence, labor former Rep. Norman Mineta, supported and helped organize the endeavor. of Pearl Harbor.

Some, including President Franklin ality, uprooted from their homes and interned as children and young adults, u.s.before senator inouye of Hawaii acknowledges the crowd for the farmers scarcer in daniel the valToday, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Board of Directors and Roosevelt, were that Japanese-Americans County overisthe week-than ever forced to live inconcerned camps behind barbed gathered in Park during an extended ovation he following introduction endUnited with family, and wire. ley’sfriends, history.organizers ” anreceived advisory board his consist of a diverse group of volunteers from across the might secretly support Japan, rather than the at the Heart Mountain interpretive Learning Center saturday. local community for three events NeverInagain should they be treated Just two months after construction of the camp United States.

States.

February 1942, Roosevelt issuedthe Executive Former Wyoming senator alan simpson (left) joins in the ovation with suspicion and hate because of the was completed inforearly Augustsenate 1942,colleague.The Powell Tribune Orderof9066, Japanese-Americans — began, his former tribune photo by Don amend heralded the initial arrivals in a story entitled, “Japanese seework Celebration, Page 3 color theirforcing skin or110,000 the slant of their arrive at new Heart Mountain Haven.” the majority of them U.S. citizens — to move from with the first 292 Japanese-Americans arriving from California, Oregon, and Washington on Aug. 11. In “(T)he Japanese themselves get the point. This coming to a peaceful their West Coast homes to relocation camps. habitation for the duration of the war is welcome and voluntary for the main One of the 10 sites chosen to host the displaced just a month’s time, the camp would swell to house body of them.” residents was the Heart Mountain flat, where con- 10,335 internees.

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Courtesy photo/Okumoto Collection, Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation

♦ December 7, 1941 Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Pilgrimage dinner honors Heart Mountain internees

In the aftermath of the 1941 Japa- an internee, said, “This is a magnifinese attack on Pearl Harbor, 120,000 cent event and I’m grateful to be here.

Japanese Americans were interned in And, I’m trying not to cry.”

It was her late mother’s dream that camps. The camps, benevolent for the ournalist Tom Brokaw, author most part, were prison camps none- the interpretive center survive, said of “The Greatest Generation,” theless. Nearly 14,000 were incarcer- Higuchi, thanking all who helped with was the keynote speaker at the its creation. ated at Heart Mountain.

Pilgrimage Dinner celebrating the A walking trail was dedicated in Before Brokaw’s address, several grand opening of the Heart Mountain Japanese-Americans with connec- Setsuko’s name when she died in tions to the camp shared greetings 2005.

Speaking to them and insights. and other former inBacon Sakatani ternees, Brokaw said, was interned at Heart ‘Japanese “You have touched Mountain in 1942. Although his presenta- americans suffered my heart tonight by who you are what tion was jocular and the greatest civil you’ve been through a bit sardonic, grim abuse imaginable.’ and what you make realities were just beof it.” neath the surface. He Tom Brokaw “We’re always at described stoves with Journalist The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center west of Powell 14-A features a replica of a guard towerour andbest barracks.

Tribune photo by Toby Bonner as a nation sheetsonofU.S. asbestos unwhen we’re more than der them to prevent the sum of our many parts. When we fires. “...But not to worry,” Sakatani said are not divided or pay tribute to people who want to divide us,” he said. amid laughter.

Even in the midst of the Great Sakatani shows a 1943 Powell prior 2000, to theWyoming war, AmeriTribune photo capturing the camp, Depression After the relocation camp’s closure, the vacant Departures from the camp at Heart Mountain In September Gov. Jim Geringer and Powell Mayor Jim cans never sighttoofsurviving the American laidand out land with — military precision some of it tilledand Milburn began in earnest in May 1945, when the U.S. govern- barracks were sold off, sentlost a letter Heart Mountain internees and their families. dream. But there was also shameful bleakness. their building stay — was offered ment began allowing internees to return to their West by the internees during“That letter it was intended to “acknowledge the difficulties and hardfacto andsaid institutionalized racial at the top isup thetohigh de The hearty homesteaders.school,” Sakatani said.

Coast homes. ships faced by internees and the lack of consideration given to those at the bigotry, Brokaw said.

“Japanese suffered A girl the audience, presumably Some 43 years after the in Heart Mountain camp By late November, the last 292 camp residents Heart MountainAmericans Relocation Center. ” theWhile greatest civil abuse imaginable,” a granddaughter great-grandunder Presidentor Ronald Reaheaded out on the final train. The camp had its own closed, the United States Geringer and Milburn declined to pass judgment on the “negative daughter of an internee, stares in ap- Brokaw said. “(They were) singled during his speech at Friday’s Pilgrimage dinner, Tom Brokaw praised the men fordismay. the relocation. It blamed station, named Vocation. Now, a nearby road adjacent gan formally apologized sentiments and restrictions” on the actions of the past, they wrote, “It is our out as suspect and alien simply beparent and women who, despite being interned at Heart Mountain relocation Camp the West Coast order “race prejudice, to U.S.World 14-A War is called Vocation in homage the as raildedicated Shirley AnnonHiguchi, whose late hope and prayer that a similar situation is never repeated, and that we can during ii, went on to lead honorabletolives citizens of evacuation mother, Setsuko leadership.

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Wyoming Foundation’s Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center.

Like a high school reunion Friday night, Japanese Americans shared laughs and listened to moving orators.

However, beneath the laughter were damp eyes and memories of a despicable chapter in American history.

May 1945: Internees allowed to return home

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However, not all local residents were as receptive to the Japanese-American visitors.

In the 1943 Wyoming Legislative session, Sen. George Burke of Powell introduced a law barring the residents of the Heart Mountain Camp from voting in Wyoming.

The city councils of Powell and Cody passed a joint resolution. In part, it asked that the Japanese-Americans at Heart Mountain not be permanently relocated to the Powell Valley and requested that visits to the two towns by camp residents “be held to an absolute minimum,” only “when absolutely necessary.”

However, the council members stressed that they still would like to see the Japanese-Americans released for work on the area’s farms.

That apparent double standard frustrated the center’s employment chief, Joe Carrol.

“We are requested to confine them to the center, except to permit them to assist in the planting and harvesting of agriculture. Just what do you want, liquidation or continuance of the center?” he asked at a Powell Club meeting later that May. “Certainly citizens or law abiding aliens cannot be expected to participate in your agricultural work, if they cannot be accorded the same rights as other citizens or aliens, whether they be of Japanese or any other ancestry.”

Similar concerns were raised by the internees at the camp when the Army came looking for recruits, after initially denying those of Japanese descent admission to the armed services. When the U.S. Government decided in 1944 to make the Nisei internees eligible for the draft, 88 young men refused to answer the call and were sentenced to prison.

Hundreds more, however, entered the service willingly. According to the Heart Mountain Foundation, a total of 800 Heart Mountain internees fought for the U.S. cause in World War II. Many had distinguished careers of military service, and 15 were killed in action.

LasT WEEK’s LOTTa NUMBER Is OUT OF sTaTE. WE’RE aLLOWINg EXTRa TIME.

Courtesy photo/Okumoto Collection, Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation

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‘I do think people underestimate what happened to us’

By Bacon Sakatani Special to the Tribune Let me first say that I became 13 years of age on the train ride to Heart Mountain in August 1942 and did not know hardly anything about what was happening. I am now 84.

I think the new Interpretive Center will help educate the people who see the exhibit in understanding what happened there during the war years. We were not put there for our own protection nor because we were a security threat.

The exhibit shows what it was like at the camp during the three years we were there. We were a group of people who obeyed the orders and made best of the situation. Most of us accepted what was happening as the American way. Those who objected were segregated to another camp; those who remained went along with the situation, to show their loyalty to America. Wartime atmosphere with barbed wire fence, guard towers and searchlights at night, soldiers, parents belonging to the enemy race, all created a situation that we were

prisoners of war so we obeyed. We adapted ourWhen the war ended and we were free to go selves to what we had, we did not riot, we thought back to the West Coast, we had a hard time. I everything was legal the way it was approved by the did not forget about Heart Mountain, as I always president, Congress and the courts. thought that the U.S. had the right to do what it I do think people underestimate what hapdid, as a youngster of 13-16 years of age. In the pened to us. I received a letter many years ago from 1980s, Congress established the Commission on a person living near the camp while we were there, Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, and she wrote we in the camp had it better than and found “...the broad historical causes which she did, as she had no running water and sewer shaped these decisions were race prejudice, war system, while we did in the camp. hysteria and a failure of political Another Wyoming person told me leadership...” (page 18 of report). The that he also heard that recently. I have redress payment and apology followed. been told that there are still people I was surprised by the findings, but in Wyoming who feel that the camp in retrospect, the truth came out. was justified. WWII veterans who And still few people think that the took over the campland and lived in camp was justified. It should be noted the barracks with no piped water and that Wyoming did “acknowledge the electricity complained to me how hard difficulties and hardships faced by the they had it compared to me. They put internees and the lack of consideration up a monument stating, among other given to those at the Heart Mountain things, “...the camp was equipped with Relocation Center” in 2000.

Bacon Sakatani modern waterworks and sewer system I have gone to the University of and a modern hospital and dental clinic...”

Wyoming about six - seven times to look at the camp administrative papers and Wyoming newsWell, my family of seven was put in a room of papers of that time. How surprised I was to see 20’ by 24’ — just a room to sleep in with a single what was written. light bulb and a coal burning stove, no bathroom, nothing, we were fed meals costing the govern(Editor’s note: Bacon Sakatani lived at the Heart ment 15 cents. We got jobs within the camp that Mountain Relocation Center for three years beginpaid us $12, $16 and $19 per month. I could go on ning in August 1942.) some more.

Barracks

offered mostly bleak living conditions The Japanese residents of the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp found austere conditions when they arrived at the camp.

Camp resident Mary Oyama wrote a weekly column for the Powell Tribune during her internment. Her writing depicted a camp that wasn’t quite the “haven” referenced by the paper in earlier columns, which depicted comfortable lodgings, good food and happy times for the camp residents.

When they were forced to evacuate the West Coast, internees were not allowed to take many belongings with them — often not more than a suitcase.

The barracks at the relocation camp didn’t have much either.

Oyama described the typical room as including an army cot, a mattress and a blanket for each person. That was it.

“There were no chairs, no table — no nuthin’,” she wrote.

In her opening columns, she spent time assuring Powell readers that there was no truth to rumors that Japanese-Americans were buying up large quantities of knives and engaging in ancient Japanese “christening ceremonies” at the camp.

Allegations of “coddling” at the camp swirled — driven by the execution of U.S. Prisoners of War in Tokyo.

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the internees had things soft and easy. The Denver Post ran a story stating that residents received better food than other Americans, who were subject to food rations at that time.

Guy Robertson, the Heart Mountain Center director, said residents at the center were provided food at a cost of 12.3 cents per meal.

“I believe this does not indicate extravagance or waste,” Robertson told the Tribune.

Oyama similarly promised readers that the residents were not being coddled.

“The church, the administration buildings, the department store, the recreation halls, etc., may sound like an imposing group of edifices, but in reality they are all only barracks,” she wrote. “We all live in black tar papered barracks.”

When a reader chastised Oyama for complaining, she didn’t back down.

“It was not our intention to express or imply a ‘gripe,’ although of course, you can’t expect people who have given up their freedom and surrendered all their civil rights although they committed no crime or single act of sabotage (as proven by FBI or NIB records) to be perfectly, blithely happy in confinement,” she wrote.

However, despite the tough times, when Oyama was released to settle in Denver in January 1943, she left with kind words for the people of the Powell Valley.

“We are actually sorry about leaving a state whose people have been so genuinely kind and sincere who have proved themselves truly democratic, Christian and American,” she wrote in her farewell column. “We leave with the feeling that some day we simply must come back so that we can get to know you better. Yes, we want to come back to Wyoming.”

Courtesy photo/Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Chris Gimmeson

Buffalo Bill Center of the West a ‘must’ on any itinerary

Whether you have two hours or two days, a visit to the five museums of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is sure to be one of the best parts of your trip West. The center, a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate, is billed as “The Voice of the American West.” And what a story the center’s five museums tell!

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West recounts the tales of the legendary showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Just imagine, by age 22, Cody had worked a wagon train, prospected for gold, rode for the Pony Express, hunted buffalo for the railroad and scouted for the Army. One need only spend some time in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West to meet the man and agree, “Buffalo Bill was so big — even the West couldn’t hold him.”

The Whitney Gallery of Western Art captures the masterworks of the artists of the American West. Remington, Russell, Catlin, Bierstadt, Moran and Wyeth are just a few of the long list of revered artists represented in the collection.

The Plains Indian Museum presents the history of the Northern Plains tribes.

Native voices, coupled with beautiful objects, articulate the life stories of Plains Indian peoples — the cultures and histories, as well as the modern-day existence.

Whether cowboy or trapper, settler or Native American, the story of the American West is incomplete without the firearm. Housing the most comprehen-

sive collection of American firearms in the world, the Cody Firearms Museum chronicles the history of the firearm, from the earliest days up to the modern era.

The Draper Museum of Natural History is the first American natural history museum to be established in the 21st century. Here, visitors are encouraged to become explorers of the Greater Yellowstone Area as they explore the relationship between the people, the animals, the plants and the landscape of the West.

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West is located at 720 Sheridan Ave. in Cody.

Travelers to Cody in 2013 will find a new name on the museum treasure that for the last 50 years has been known as the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

Now the museum complex bears the name of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

The institution’s board of directors said the name change is to more accurately describe the width and depth of the museum’s mission, collections and programs.

The new name captures more fully the great collections and everything the museum is about. The five museums and research library are a world class experience in Yellowstone nature and science, art of the American West, Plains Indians, firearms and history as told through the life and times of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody.

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Buffalo Culture Collection

Gallery debut coincides with Powwow

The vision of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (formerly the Buffalo Bill Historical Center) and its Plains Indian Museum, to share the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection, comes to fruition with the June opening of the new Paul Dyck Center for Plains Indians.

The 1,800-square-foot permanent exhibition gallery, located in the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West opens in conjunction with the center’s 32nd annual Plains Indian Museum Powwow June 15-16.

Drawing from the resources of the Dyck Collection, the exhibition gallery and program will explore the role of art within environmental, cultural, and historical contexts.

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LIVE RAPTORS l e a v e B u f f a l o B i l l C e n t e r o f t h e We s t v i s i t o r s r a p t w i t h a t t e n t i o n Most museums boast their collections—of inanimate objects and artifacts—and rightly so: Those collections are extraordinary, and nowhere is that more true than at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. But the center goes a step further to leave visitors “rapt with attention”: It added raptors—live birds of prey.

Here the Greater Yellowstone Raptor Experience brings visitors face to face with five of the area’s most recognizable birds: turkey vulture, red-tailed hawk, peregrine falcon, great horned owl, and the latest addition, a golden eagle. These “avian ambassadors” even have Facebook pages and T-shirts with their likenesses.

Each raptor has an injury or condition that prohibits its return to the wild and has undergone wildlife rehabilitation before moving to Cody. For example, Teasdale, the great horned owl, was found with a severe wing injury by hikers near Teasdale, Utah.

Assistant Curator Melissa Hill explains that the only real problem with the center’s turkey vulture is that she thinks she’s human—which, as it

turns out, is not a good thing for a bird.

“Suli (Cherokee for “vulture”) has been raised by humans since she was only a couple weeks old,” Hill explains. “Without adult turkey vultures to act as foster parents, she didn’t gain the critical skills

for survival that her parents would have taught her. Consequently, she can never be released back into the wild.”

The birds appear in daily programs throughout the summer months, which are free with paid admission.

Visitors to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody come face to face with raptors —five varieties of live birds of prey — who serve as unique ‘ambassadors.’ Courtesy photo/Buffalo Bill Center of the West

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‘Meeting place’

In the Shoshone Indian language, Meeteetse means “meeting place,” and for more than 140 years, it has been just that as one of the oldest settlements in the Big Horn Basin of northwest Wyoming.

The meadow of the Double D Dude Ranch lies southwest of Meeteetse on the Wood River. Courtesy photo

Meeteetse: Rich with history

Meeteetse dates its earliest settlements to the 1870s. The town, itself, dates to the establishment of a post office and the school in 1880.

This was 16 years prior to the establishment of Cody in 1896.

Meeteeste, in Park County, lies 30 miles southeast of Cody on Wyoming 120.

Meeteetse’s history is rich in early day ranching in the upper Greybull River Valley. The Pitchfork Ranch, an icon of pioneer ranch development west of Meeteetse, traces its roots to 1879 and at one time encompassed 250,000 acres.

In 1881, Meeteetse was the terminus of the old Meeteetse Trail, built by the army as a stage and freight road running from Red Lodge (and Billings), Mont., to get supplies to the area. The trail was the first road built in the Big Horn Basin and was eventually extended to Lander and Rawlins.

In the 1880s, Meeteetse became the jumping off point for a minor gold rush to the Upper Wood River Valley. In 1885, William Kirwin discovered gold in the valley, and by 1891, the Wood River Mining District had been formed. The center of the mining district was the town of Kirwin 33 miles to the southwest of Meeteetse at 9,500 feet of elevation.

A number of mines were established in the area, and gold was brought out by mules. Snow, and depleting commercial gold, spelled the end of the mining. In a 1907 blizzard, 50 feet of snow fell on Kirwin in eight days, and an avalanche buried the town store, killing three people. With spring thaw, the remaining occupants left town.

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Meeteetse even has connection with some of the mystical outlaw history of the West. Butch Cassidy once lived in the area and left his mark on an 1886 petition. In 1894, he was arrested outside the Cowboy Bar. The Cowboy Bar is still operating today.

Kirwin is accessible today, and has buildings still standing.

Meeteetse is proud of its ranching, mining and cowboy heritage. Today the “meeting place” is the center for many and varied outdoor recreation activities in keeping with Western traditions. The charm of the Old West is preserved in Meeteetse’s wooden boardwalks, watering troughs, hitching posts and historic buildings dating to the turn of the 20th century.

Hiking, hunting and fishing, horseback riding, camping and wildlife viewing opportunities are abundant in the Meeteetse outdoor world.

The cowboy heritage of rodeo provides a town celebration each Labor Day weekend. Last year was the 100th running of the Meeteetse Labor Day Rodeo.

For more information, call the Meeteetse Visitor Center at 307-8682454 or visit www.meeteetsewy.com.

Hiking, hunting and fishing, horseback riding, camping and wildlife viewing opportunities are abundant in the Meeteetse outdoor world.

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Aviatrix Amelia Earhart’s Meeteetse dream unfulfilled

Carl M. Dunrud gave Amelia Earhart a haircut on the Double D Ranch in 1934.

A monument on the north edge of Meeteetse attests to the dream that died with the disappearance somewhere in the Pacific of America’s heroine of aviation, Amelia Earhart.

The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean (and the first person to fly across both the Atlantic and the Pacific) fell in love with the Meeteetse area on a visit in the 1930s. She was having a home built in the Wood River Valley when she mysteriously disappeared in 1937 on a flight to circumnavigate the earth from the equator.

The Meeteetse connection for Amelia Earhart was dude rancher Carl Dunrud and his wife Vera. In the early 1930’s, the Dunruds made an effort to revive the abandoned town of Kirwin. They built and opened the Double D Dude Ranch near Kirwin.

Carl Dunrud had previously worked on Meeteetse area ranches, and he had served as a guide in Yellowstone Park.

There, he met George P. Putnam, New York City publisher, who would marry

Amelia Earhart in 1931. Putnam employed Dunrud as a roper on Putnam’s 1926 expedition to Greenland where Dunrud roped polar bears, musk oxen and walruses.

Years later, Amelia Earhart and Putnam were among visitors and guests of the Dunruds at the Double D Dude Ranch.

Earhart directed that a cabin be built for her future use after her around-the-world flight.

The Earhart cabin, located one-half mile from Kirwin, remains unfinished, awaiting for the aviatrix who never returned.

“Lady Lindy,” as Earhart was known in the adoring press of the time, had completed 22,000 miles of her flight around the globe. The remaining 7,000 miles would be over the Pacific.

She was on a 2,556-mile leg from New Guinea to Howland Island, between Australia and Hawaii in July of 1937 when she disappeared. It is widely believed her plane ran short of fuel and had to be ditched.

To see pictures of Amelia or to learn more, visit the Meeteetse museums.

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May 2: Home Is Where the Kitchen Is:

Elizabeth Morrison, 6, and Kaylee Spomer, 1 1/2, and their canine friend Sue enjoy a ride courtesy of Rebel the horse during Homesteader Days, a celebration of the bygone days. Tribune photo by Tessa Schweigert

Homesteader Museum

A peek into the pioneer past

From the first settlers who vowed to “turn the desert green,” to the modernday residents who populate the valley — Homesteader Museum offers a look through the ages.

The log cabin-style Homesteader Museum, just off Highway 14-A in Powell, houses a collection that chronicles the history of the Powell Valley.

Founded in 1968, Homesteader Museum has a number of permanent exhibits, such as a hunting and fishing display featuring antique firearms, fishing poles and Lucier photos of hunting and fishing spoils of days gone by.

There is also an exhibit dedicated to the history of the Powell Fire Department, complete with vintage hoses and buckets, photos and a toy train and fire engine display. The exhibit spotlighting the story surrounding the legendary outlaw Earl Durand is a continuing fascination.

The museum’s collection of historical memorabilia also includes a photographic history of the Shoshone Reclamation Project that brought water to the valley and made possible the lush agriculture that visitors marvel at today.

One of the first of its kind, the massive irrigation project — an engineering and construction feat that was clearly ahead of its time — first made it possible, then profitable, to live and farm the arid basin.

The facility has a homesteader kitchen, turn-of-the-century woodworking tools, Indian artifacts, a blacksmith shop and an old school room, too.

The museum also features the Bever Homestead, a 1913 homesteader house moved in 2004 from its original location east of Powell. The renovated building offers a firsthand glimpse of the early settlers’ lifestyle.

A second building is chock full of antique farm equipment and there is a bright red caboose on the grounds that the kids will love to explore.

A GPS-guided walking tour of downtown Powell’s historic buildings is available for visitors who wish to spend a bit more time soaking up the history of the area.

The video tour includes 22 points of interest, including the historic First National Bank building, the site of the Earl Durand incident in 1939 — Powell’s only bank robbery and the first such robbery in the nation to be covered live on radio. Visitors may rent a GPS Ranger containing the tour for $10 and a second device for $5. The Homesteader Museum is open, free to the public, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The museum may also be opened at other times by special appointment.

Celebrating a Half Century of Kitchens 1900-1955.

Exhibit opening reception, 5-7pm Homesteader Museum Free exhibit through August 10

May 11: Tea and Table Designs: “The Commons” in Powell, 11am-4pm Includes Apron Fashion Show, Boutique Lunch or Afternoon Tea Homesteader Museum Fundraiser

June 7: From the Ground Up: Agriculture at Heart Mountain Heart Mountain Interpretive Center Exhibit opening reception, 6pm

July 13: “Homegrown” Bus Tour: Tour area farms, gardens and greenhouses.

Homesteader Museum, 9am-1pm

August 24: Grand Opening of KEY INGREDIENTS: America by Food, a traveling Smithsonian exhibit Homesteader Museum reception, 2-4pm Free exhibit through October 25

Sept 7: Homesteader Days 5K Fun Run and chili cook off - Homesteader Museum

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Tribune photo by Kevin Kinzley

Powell Aquatic Center Features fun for the family

Located in Homesteader Park just off U.S. 14-A, the Powell Aquatic Center features two pools. The new facility, completed in 2010, has a leisure pool with a beach entry, splash pad, continuous river, PEPSI water walk, mountain slide and bench area for relaxing. An eight-lane

pool ranges from 4 to 12 feet deep with plenty of room for exercise and enjoyment.

The aquatic center is open from 5:30 a.m.8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday;10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday.

Daily admission to the pool is $5 for adults

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Punch passes and memberships also are available.

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An architectural wonder atop a hill 15 miles east of Yellowstone National Park prompts many passersby to question: ‘What’s that?’

Just west of Wapiti, the 75-foot-high The Smith Mansion is private Smith mansion, or, as it’s also known, property and no trespassing is allowed.

“The Crazy House,” was built by Francis Lee Smith.

While working on the home on a April day in 1992, Smith slipped from an upper floor and fell to his death.

Sunny Smith Larsen, who grew up in the home, is organizing an effort to restore and preserve the site.

“Everything is pretty much left how he left it,” says Smith Larsen.

You can still see stains on the roof of the first floor where he fell.

Beneath the spot, on the rocky ground, a rose bush has grown.

“Makes you kind of wonder,” says Smith Larsen. “Nothing grows up here.”

Most of the floorboards of the old Meeteetse High gymnasium still are sitting on shelves in the first-floor attic of the house, right where Smith put them after tearing the boards out of the gym. They’re still waiting to be used — or, as Smith Larsen now plans, to be cleared out.

A deflated vacuum cleaner sits on the floor of the central “cold room,” tied to the wall in a weave of extension cords.

The cords once ran all the way through the house — powering everything from a TV in the eating room to a lamp in the crow’s nest.

T h e c ord s were the only source of elec-

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Smith Mansion

tricity for the home, stretching from the electrical pole a couple hundred yards away at the foot of the hill.

“I bet he (Smith) would have 15 extension cords at a time,” Smith Larsen says, adding, “I’m surprised we never had a fire.”

She took a renewed interest in the mansion after her brother, Bucky Smith, died in 2005, leaving her with sole ownership.

“It’s amazing that it was all done by hand,” she says, pointing out pieces that were to be used as a hand-drawn elevator.

“We’ve had architects come up here, and they’re amazed,” she said.

It was a talent unique to Smith, who, when not working on the home, worked as an architect in Cody.

Many years ago, Smith Larsen and her late brother Bucky spent a good six hours trying to finish a portion of the third floor.

“We ended with two logs up, and we lost them both,” she says.

Any blueprints for the site are gone, leaving Larsen with few clues as to what exactly her father had planned.

“I wish he was here so I could ask him,” she says.

At the time of his death, Smith was close to completing two decades of work on the mansion.

“That’s all I can remember him doing pretty much as a kid,” says Smith Larsen, adding, “Boy, did we have a weird upbringing.

“He was very strange in a lot of ways,” she says.

Smith was also wildly creative.

As a testament to its eccentricity, opinions of the home widely differ. Some neighbors enjoy the mansion’s towering profile, others find it an eyesore.

“You either love it or you hate it,” says Smith Larsen.

“You’re either really intrigued or you’re just put off.”

Interest in the hilltop high-rise, however, is near universal. For passing tourists or long-time locals, the structure is hard to miss or ignore.

One summer, Smith Larsen worked at the nearby Red Barn service station and dealt with a constant flood of inquiries about the mysterious house on the hill.

“I got tired from telling the story after two weeks,” she said.

Smith Larsen has a number of ideas for the mansion, perhaps selling branded memorabilia, perhaps creating a tourist attraction, perhaps turning it into a bed and breakfast where floors, and not rooms, would be rented out to guests.

“It just comes down to the money,” she says.

Realistically, Smith Larsen says it would take $400,000 to $500,000 to restore the place. For more information, visit www.smithmansion.org.

Uniquely Western The Smith Mansion stands on a ridge above the North Fork highway west of Cody near the community of Wapiti. Construction on this home halted with the owner/builder’s death in a fall from the structure. Clean-up efforts continue at the site, which is privately owned. Tribune file photo

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Chief Joseph and Beartooths

Highway and mountains a bonus for Yellowstone area visitors

Yellowstone National Park is the Big Daddy destination of the summer travel season in northwest Wyoming.

No question about it.

But, there are any number of “must sees” for the summer traveler on the rim of Yellowstone Country, just the sort of thing to add icing to an unforgettable summer in the West.

One such experience that entices many an adventure seeker to extend their stay to or from Yellowstone is the spectacular drive afforded by the Beartooth All-American Highway along the Wyoming-Montana border just outside the Northeast Entrance to Yellowstone. For many, it is a destination unto itself.

The Beartooth Highway ( U.S. 212) is a 68-mile travel corridor between the NE Entrance and Red Lodge, Mont., that reaches nearly 11,000 feet in elevation with sweeping vistas of snow-covered mountains, high plateau views, lakes and trails. A 54-mile segment of the road is designated as the Beartooth AllAmerican Road, one of only 31 All-American Roads highlighted as the most scenic national byways in the country.

Wyoming’s connection to U.S. 212 is ‘God and engineers and the remarkable Chief Joseph HIghway builders did a good job.’ (Wyo 296) north of Cody that climbs over ~ Traveler Dead Indian Pass and traverses the Upper Clark’s Fork River Valley to intersect with 212 on the way to Cooke City, Mont. It provides a wonderful loop road from Cody for a day trip (or longer) to access the scenic majesty of the Beartooths.

In the summer travel season of 2012, University of Montana researchers conducted an economic impact study of the Beartooth All-American Road.

More than 163,000 non-resident traveler groups were counted. In dollars and cents, they accounted for $45 million in spending in the three gateway communities of Cody, Wyo., Cooke City and Red Lodge, Mont.

Nearly half of them were first-time travelers to the Beartooths, and they told what made the Beartooth Highway special to them.

These are among traveler comments: “Absolutely beautiful drive, we loved it and would highly recommend it.

Only suggestion would be to provide more advance notice of some of the more scenic pullouts.”

“Beartooth Highway is best route off Cody to Mammoth Hot Springs, least traffic, great scenery. Cody is used to stock the RV.” “Beautiful trip over Monster Mountain was scary for me. I’m scared of heights! God’s handiwork awesome!”

“Best mountain scenery we have ever experienced. Please leave as is. We don’t need another 4 lane highway through scenic America. Slow down and take it all in.”

“Don’t ever change this road. I love the curves and turns just the way it is.”

“Fantastic scenery, great animal watching opportunities., fascinating road construction.”

“God and engineers and builders did a good job.”

“Happy we traveled Chief Joseph Scenic Byway, beautiful country even though we did not go up to Red Lodge.”

“Have seen Beartooth Pass written up in the magazines. Highly rated, should invite PBS or Nat Geo with direction to make a documentary of the building and use of BTH. I find it interesting that the Swedish engineers designed the road.”

“I am from Japan. I don’t understand the expression ‘elbow room.’”

“I was familiar with Chief Joseph as I am a historian. The highway was a highlight of our trip, and I will recommend this passage.”

“Most beautiful drive anywhere! More signage needed to remind tourists not to stop on the roadway, more turnouts needed.”

“Primary reason for traveling Beartooth — it was a different route between Cody and the interstate on the way to Yellowstone.”

“Breathtaking drive. Please don’t make it ‘safer’”

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Yellowstone National Park beckons travelers

America’s first national park offers something for every traveler — exciting adventure, beautiful scenery, wildlife, serenity, geysers, fine food and accommodations ranging from rustic to glamorous.

Yellowstone National Park was founded in 1872 after early explorers reported finding dazzling geysers, colorful mineral ponds, rumbling waterfalls and abundant wildlife. More than 100 years later, little has changed in the park’s backcountry, although beautiful hotels, campgrounds, visitor centers and other facilities dot the park’s 466 miles of paved roads. To leave the beaten path, go to one of the park’s 92 trailheads, leading to more than 1,100 miles of backcountry trails.

Come early; come often — an annual pass allowing unlimited access to the park is $50, while a seven-day pass for a private car full of visitors is $25. A visitor riding a motorcycle or snowmobile pays $20. Those walking in or riding a bike pay $12 apiece. An annual interagency pass that covers admission to most national parks and federal recreation areas throughout the United States is $80.

Discounted passes are available for senior citizens or disabled visitors.

But for a few days a year, you can get into the park for free — the National Park Service waives entrance fees on Aug. 25, “NPS Birthday;” Sept. 28, National Public Lands Day; and Nov. 9 for Veterans Day weekend.

Roads are open 24 hours a day throughout the park through the summer, although various road construction projects are planned each year. For current conditions and road construction schedules, call (307) 344-2117 or visit www.nps.gov/yell. Xanterra Parks and Resorts operates lodging and store facilities in Yellowstone.

For lodging reservations, camping information and other visitor services, call (307) 344-7311 or toll-free at 866-GEYSERLAND (866-439-7375) or check the company’s website, www.yellowstonenationalparklodges.com.

Information about Yellowstone National Park is also available at the Powell Valley Chamber of Commerce along U.S. 14-A or at visitor information offices in gateway cities like Cody and Cooke City, Mont.

Current conditions To drive to Cooke City, take the sceand road nic Chief Joseph Highway off Wyo. 120 construction schedules: about 16 miles north of Cody and follow the signs leading to the park’s northeast entrance.

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Ralston rocks FOR MULE DAYS

It’s all about the mules. It’s always the week of Father’s Day. Seven miles west of Powell - 70 miles from Yellowstone Park

June 12-16

Population in the tiny town of Ralston in northwest Wyoming swells ten-fold for a few days each June. Mark the calendar for June 12-16 this year. That’s when the 16th anniversary edition of Jake Clark’s Mule Days rolls through Ralston, seven miles west of Powell in Park County — 70 miles from Yellowstone Park. Mule Days brings crowds of up to 1,500 to the hamlet which is home to a population of scantly over 100 for the rest of the year.

The Mule Days Rodeo at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 15 and the live auction of select saddle mules at 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 16 are the big events on the five-day card. Clinics and competition in mounted shooting, team sorting and ranch mulemanship, along with jackpot team roping and barrel racing, extend Wednesday through Friday.

A Saturday morning parade at 11 a.m. in Ralston is built around the theme of “The Old West.” Following a Saturday afternoon rodeo with mules in the spotlight, there is a “you-all-come” steak and hamburger dinner with all the fixin’s. Then it’s over to the Big Barn for a Saturday night dance to the music of Hurricane Mesa.

Cowboy Church gets the Sunday program going at 7 a.m. in the same Big Barn, which later is the setting of the Mule Days Auction at 1 p.m.

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Come and enjoy shopping in our downtown area with lots of convenient parking.

Powell’s 12 parks are unmatched in the state.

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