“There's a certain group of people in Kemmerer that unless your family has been here, unless you were raised here and had several generations here going back to our coal miners digging the coal out of the earth by hand, that somehow you're not native and certainly not an interest in what your opinion is about the town or whatever.” SE
“The trains were coming through the area and they needed coal to power the trains…Diamondville and Kemmerer got together and they formed the town of Kemmerer. Of course, there was hundreds of little towns around here. You couldn’t walk 10 feet without going to a coal mine. Then that came in. It was a super boom then and that went through. Then of course, where there’s miners [there’s] everything else. You’ve got the saloons and liquor. Consequently, that was a boom all by itself. ”
