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SY: After leaving Puyallup and then riding the train to Minidoka, what were your first impressions of Minidoka?

MN: Well, it was, it was interesting to see barracks. There were six barracks, like army barracks, on each side. And in the middle, there was a mess hall and a laundry room, there weren't any toilets. They had outhouses at first. But the sagebrush. (...) Just as far as you could see in any direction was sagebrush. It was so different from cedar trees and pine trees that I'd been used to seeing.

SY: What was your feeling while you were going from one place to the other? What kinds of feelings did you have?

MN: Well, it seemed like it was no-man's land. There was nothing that looked like civilization. It was just all sagebrush and a couple of water towers.

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