(AP Photo/File) This March 23, 1942, photo shows the first arrivals at the Japanese evacuee community established in Owens Valley in Manzanar, Calif. Roughly 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans were sent to camps that dotted the West because the government claimed they might plot against the U.S. The location is featured in a collection of mini-essays by American writers published online by the Frommer's guidebook company about places they believe helped shape and define America.