Very well told story thanks for making it available.

My Italian family settled there. My father was still working in the mines in the 60's.

My Great Great Grandfather was one of the original pioneers from the Merritt Family who found the first steel ore in the Mesabi Range. I have the original manuscripts of his fight with the Rockafellers and the discovery of the Steel Ore.

@brandon-tz6bu

5 жыл бұрын

Thats awesome!

@user-pp4nd7vw8m

3 жыл бұрын

I bet that would be interesting to read!

@blairpetrie2080

3 жыл бұрын

Always good to meet a fellow pioneer, Of steel. Since the coal mines My father Dapper Dan Petrie, was a Federal Offical IN The Cape Breton Developement Corporation, of Nova Scotia, Canada. He at one time was a Federal National, WAlter Petrie was a junior National. In The mining industry of Sydney Nova Scotia, New Waterford, Cape Breton. I always wanted to know why DEVCO, Equipments were not kept going, through DEVCO, machine works, and coal mining, consortium. The Trains and ship rail could have been fixed and referbished, and Leased out to other mines, including, copper, zinc. Gold and even DIAMOND mINES. Our DEFECET was worth $70 Billion back in the 1970s, the song came up, "The Golden Years". I discussed it with my father Daniel D. Petrie, and confirmed, its possible to get a million or more miles, out of a desiel engine, and gas also. I don't believe in a disposable Economy, Because society fails, and everyone goes with it. Starting with the landfill, by diverting plastic. The plastic can bet dilouted into a liquid, in stainless steel vats, melted down, then sprayed, adding a hardener, then reshaped, into reuseable material. But where to get funding? My father is now over 60, and still works on his tracter, and Dump truck, God bless him he is a good man. July/26/2021/ YOurs truly Blair. I want to help Fix, The Crown Verty. The Defecet may not have been perfect the first time round. I have heard talk of resetting certain, parts of the Defecet. THat hada profititable outlook, and a promissing Future, God save the pioneeres, of America. Mark Mcneil was an adopted black affro slave that was told by me not sabbotage, Sydney forks, should be Planting picking crops. from cotton, to wear clothes, not try to take over BlueNotes, and BugleBoys, clothiers. And plant and pick, white rice, $178 Billion a year World Wide, Defecet. Then work in saw mills, to build shelters, to live in and pay rent. Not Theft Autos to put over Cliffside, Barchouis, New Waterford, and the Hub Over in Glace bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. I would get beaten up over what i Knew. Busted lips, Black eyes, and broken noses. But got my Grade 12, Education, at Breton Education Center. I want Mark Mcneil off my Blonde Hair, That he cut off the back of my head, and ran away with, I said to Mark I want my Hair back, he said " I want it for luck". Itold mark to give it back or else. He said no, so i punched him and had blood comming out of his mouth. I told Mark Mcneil Not to use my Blonde hair, in a Black Magic Ritual. I know have 6, black moles on my left ballsack. What to do?

@BozAwesome

2 жыл бұрын

Do you have any recommendation on other documentary's?

@limjahey6628

Жыл бұрын

@@BozAwesome Viper - You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack

The segment about the rise and fall of Jewish communities on The Range was very well done.

Thanks. We love this channel.

Thanks for posting this very interesting having lived in Virginia for a short time.

that was a really good docu.. my own family history coming out in part as my great grandfather worked for Weyerhaeuser as a stable master and moved west with the company ..

@elliotclark6770

2 жыл бұрын

sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know a way to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb forgot the password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me

@diegotristen2457

2 жыл бұрын

@Elliot Clark instablaster =)

I recall a story of a Norwegian guy who had to learn Finnish in order to talk to some one...This in the UP

@mickthompson9681

3 жыл бұрын

Why was Iron Junction not mentioned in this history of the Iron Range? Manny Molien and many from Iron Juction are really disappointed !

excellent narration .......great story

A round 45 to 46 minutes into this documentary, they show the beautiful town hall and Library built by Carnegie. Unbelievably beautiful buildings, I wonder if they still exist today. For such a relatively small area, they were wonderful structures.

@aleinstein3223

2 жыл бұрын

There is still one in Chisholm Mn. Still used as a library, its beautiful.

What a well done documentary. My father grew up on the Range in Marble (west of Hibbing) where his dad worked for the mines as a carpenter in the 1920s and 30's. . After dad came back from World War 2, he got a degree in Mining Engineering from the U of Minn. in Minneapolis. He never went back to the Range though and opportunities there became fewer as ore quality dropped and cheap labor in South American mines took a lot of the business. My grandparents house where we visited in the 1960's when I was a kid was moved in the 1970's due to encroachment of one of the mines there.

@rabidpandamotovlogs1389

Жыл бұрын

Moved to the Grand Rapids when I was 4. I grew up in Coleraine, very familiar with the Range. Miss it but very few opportunities. So I enlisted in the Navy in 2012, spent a year in before being discharged. Decided to drive truck after I got out. Lived in Arizona and Nebraska since, but moved back to NW MN after almost 20 years because my dad, sister and numerous family members live up there.

My great grandfather Robert Murphy was the mining superintendent at the Buhl mine. My grandfather a Norwegian immigrant also worked there. My mother told us how he used to come home from work totally black with dirt all over his clothes and face. She said all you could see were whites of his eyes.

There's plenty more to cover in a part two:. Ice hockey, taconite mines, snowmobiling, ice fishing, greyhound buses, Finns, Slavs, Italians ....

@IronRangeOutlawBrigade

6 ай бұрын

You bet!!!

Seeing this makes me proud of living here

WoW, Today I could live in one of those Trolly’s.

Never heard of this corner of the earth before, but had to look it up on Google Earth, and holly hell, did they ever manage to ruin the land. What a mess they left behind. Amazing.

@rabidpandamotovlogs1389

Жыл бұрын

I grew up on the Iron Range. It actually created a different type of landscape for recreational use. You used to be able to fish, hunt, snowmobile and off-road in most of the old mines and tailings piles. The abandoned pits have been filling up with water for 50+ years, and MN DNR spent 10s of millions of dollars stocking with fish, building trails, and boat landings. Now, most are reclaimed by steel companies to work the tailings piles through magnetation, and drain the pits to re-mine them for the low and high grade or that's left.

The Hibbing high school built by the Oliver mining co. Is absolutely beautiful, was lucky enough to graduate from there. Won the Bellamy award for best high school in the nation. 1969

Very interesting. Lots of compression artifacts though.

49:00 traction engines are interesting. any chance one surviced?

Why don’t any of the videos from this channel have subtitles? I enjoy the pictures and film of all the familiar places but I can’t hear any of the story

@mikekaup5252

Жыл бұрын

I had no problem getting captions. I just hit in the caption ikon.

Bravo.hetes a tale..the copper 'up norte' had silver , some say alot of silver and some gold ,. Before white guys found the site , ie the top exposed rock / ore , could have ,should have been sprinkled with very enduring gold , from weathering , one might go forth and check around for blue gray Clay's...test all the Clay's you can find..it's not like other copper mines , it was exposed , for one...

12:31 exact picture of my Pioneer Great Grandfather up in Canada - Ukrainian Galatia. The Old Way.

I actually live in the iron range so I find this very interesting

@AlecHagen

2 ай бұрын

Hibbing to be exact

@Razingdoesrandomstuff

Ай бұрын

Alec don't say this

@Razingdoesrandomstuff

Ай бұрын

Remember 40 y old men

..SAD how Humans ALWAYs Over Use Any Resource.....

37:51

I remember all of that. Lol

In the US we harvest the iron, copper, aluminum, and lead from the ground and make it into automobiles and other products that eventually go to a recycler who in turn sells it to China. Recycling does no good for the US if we sell what is recycled to foreign interests instead of keeping it on our shores.

@riverraisin1

4 жыл бұрын

Some of our copper ore from Arizona mines is being shipped directly to China.

@frankdalla

3 жыл бұрын

I once did some work for a large automobile recycler. Thousands and thousands of crushed and eventually shredded cars went to China for the metals they contained.

@raypitts4880

3 жыл бұрын

money

@denverspin

7 ай бұрын

Where do you think the steel from the twin towers went? Where do you think all the scrap cars go? Yeah, they are sold overseas. And then we buy it back, consuming junk.

This documentary acts like the mining dried up in the 30s and 40s. The DM&IR had record setting years in tonnage hauled during the late 30s through the 40s. I don't understand who wrote this, are they mad at the history? Do they not understand mining? Mining towns only last as long as the mineral then they move. Lumber companies only stay in buisness if there is large trees to be felled. Why do they make it seem like the region died out?

@captsirl

7 жыл бұрын

They forget to tell every one how the companies screwed the people so hard that were never rewarded for their hard work in the mines.

@riversonglovesthedr

7 жыл бұрын

and were still fucking people over well into the 80s and 90s j/s

Many Finnish family names pop up.

Verginia should of got into firnature and would of ben more work

DID THEY REPLANT ANY TREES? OR DID THE BIG COMPANIES JUST TAKE?

@denverspin

7 ай бұрын

What are your thoughts? What are these giant resource suckers known for? They take what they want and walk away. Same all over the world. Why do think our Military is spread so thinly across the globe. They protect the areas of resources so that the Elites can take what they want. Same same This is why we are hated.

Michigan was first and way earlier at everything in this video. And as a result Mich. was stripped and ruined by all the logging!..

4 horses to pull all that lumber. Ice roads mighta helped but geez....

@mikekaup5252

Жыл бұрын

If you looked close at one scene they had water tanks in the sleds that sprinkled the trail to make an ice trail

Don't come in here with them red ore boots on!

@IronRangeOutlawBrigade

6 ай бұрын

Growing up on the north side of Virginia, we all had our “pit shoes” so when we played up in the ore dumps we wouldn’t wreck our other shoes

There are a certain number of comments by obvious neurotics that would usefully be removed.

@denverspin

7 ай бұрын

Do you believe in freedom of speech?

@stargatecommand714

5 ай бұрын

​@@denverspinthat applies to the government, not a private company's terms of service

White Pines were used for MASTS on sailing ships.. other trees for lumber.. America built the world..LUMBER BARONS.. at one time DULUTH had most MILLIONAIRES per mile.

"Everybody was a 'minority' out here."

@jerryvivanco4898

3 жыл бұрын

And today!!!??? Sensible, RESPONSIBLE people........are in the "minority".

14:07 $ettlement ? Wheres all the people settled ? nowhere - AN EXCU$E FOR deforestation of Americas best resource as slaves : its people. but IMMIGRANTS were not American so prices dropped as WHICH culture or race CONTROLLED yhe rest .

horses were abused as were the men.

@denverspin

7 ай бұрын

And the women. And the kids. Capitalism takes at whatever cost.

She doesn't pronounce "Iron Range" properly. She stresses "Iron"....a true Ranger wouldn't do that.

Terrible title the iron range is not lost it’s right where it’s always been for millions of years

WHO BOUGHT THE MINING RIGHTS FROM THE indians . What documents PROOF this transaction. Company company company PHOOEY !!!

Why is no-one saying The sudden soap reversely obey because bench excitingly man from a ill-fated sandwich. super, permissible sled? Cause it makes no sense, is my guess.

I Hey Kary Nation. Without mining life as you know it would not exist everything revolves around mining minerals everything!!!!!!!! Give your head a shake before you display your ignorance on a subject you need to be educated on! Again everything in mankind needs mining to exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Use to be a democrat stronghold because of the miners union but now it is president Trump country.......

Destroying nature, quite the legacy you have 🙄. Humans aren’t worth this….

The Iron Range is coming back!! VOTE TRUMP 2020!!

Trump 2020, the only hope!

@stargatecommand714

5 ай бұрын

Lol how'd that turn out?

The segment about the rise and fall of Jewish communities on The Range was very well done.