Didnt. Some of them, there was still mining going on up the valley, not the smelting. They would ship it out in ore cars probably to there was a smelter in washington and there were some this canada. So some of them would get work there, but most of them just waited and waited for the mines to reopen, and they didnt. Finally, many left. But many stayed, and maybe theyre involved with the ski industry here and the tourist industry. But the wages paid in those industries is so much less than the miners were paid. It really hurt the town a lot. I wanted to write a book about kellogg because i grew up here, and i began it as a novel about the labor strike that happened when i was a junior and senior in high school. And so i came back to interview people about this strike and find out more about it because i knew a lot about it because id worked for the lawyer who helped form the new union, but i learned i didnt know know everything. And the more i talked with people, the more i learned. An
Populated area and people have been taught what took place there and what took place was very important, but it was a diversion, the real battle was up here. You see if the british can take plattsburgh, theres no troops between here and washington, d. C. , theres no american the calvary is not coming and with plattsburgh gone, they can go on to lake george and the hudson and split the United States half. In the meantime, the treaty is on, and this is a bargaining chip, if you can take plattsburgh and redraw the northern border of the United States. What they had in mind, they didnt plan to take the United States again, this is not another revolution, what they planned was, they wanted a new northern border for the United States, not the 45th parallel, but the 43rd. They wanted the northern border of massachusetts to be the bored of the northern United States. And if you take that line and you run it across the country, you end up in buffalo. That means that the United States would have
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