mr. ebert: when i was a kid, the only books they had were books on the american west. since i have always been a nonfiction person, i got, i read everything i could there on the primarily the native americans. over the years, the 1950's when i was growing up, was a time when you had all of the movies at the theater, most of them were cowboy movies and cowboy programs were on tv. so, when i was a kid, you were sort of saturated with the american west. and i just fell in love with it. and then in 1993, i began traveling through the west and i just fell in love with it. i quickly became, came to understand that there was much more to the west than cowboy and indian fights. it's just the artistry of the landscape, the culture, the history, the really deep history. it involves so many different quite that it was different from what hollywood presented all of these years. were asian-americans, african-american, hispanic the west was far more diverse in many ways then some of the places east of the mississippi river. first, i'm going to talk about the books i purchased on afr

there's an army blanket issue to them in the camp, and as you see, this is their family id number .mr. ebertwhen i was a their family id number .kid, the only books they , 4042 should kindly gave us this army blanket because a lot of the since theycold didn't know where they were going, a lot of them did not bring appropriate winter clothing, so they were issued army blankets or give an old army coats. this is an example of one of those. this is another piece of luggage, a duffel bag, and this is from the come auto family. you see their number is 40896, and the family were from sangha valley.e san joaquin what is interesting is they had to make their own duffel bag. this is a silver sac. wasou can see, this company a local company from fresno. that isa wood carving being lent to us. we don't know who made it. it's not signed, but it's quite beautiful. you see the guard tower and a lot of the intricate details. obviously, these people had a lot of time in camp. they were allowed to work later on off camp. the older people really had nothing to do. i think a lot of them took up parts and craft

mr. ebert: when i was a kid, the only books they had were books on the american west. since i have always been a nonfiction person, i got, i read everything i could the