Introduction

The book starts ten thousand years ago a Mongolian tribe journeyed a terribly long way to North America, through Eurasia and the Bering Strait, and settled land stretching from Connecticut to Northeast Ohio, land eventually known as the Western Reserve Range.

This homogeneous Mongol tribe, or the Mound Builders—as their modern historical name reflects—constructed pyramid-like earthy mounds for religious rituals, and for military protection from auburn-faced invaders from South America, thus forming in part the murky beginnings of the Native American Indian.

Historical Context

When American Steel and Sheet & Tube closed for good, overnight, Warrentown became an industrial graveyard of broken steel mills, wasting along the polluted, oily banks of the salty-marsh Mahoning River.

Current Situation

Your only chance? Move away from the steel valley. And wasn’t it just another corrupted city in the heart of the rust belt? It is here, ten years on, where the story begins.