Author: Anita Zager
Publisher: Adventure Publications(MN)
Keywords: sea, freshwater, gem, duluth
Number of Pages: 123
Published: 2004-12-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1591930545
ISBN-13: 9781591930549

Author: Michael Fedo
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: books, borealis, duluth, lynchings
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 087351386X
ISBN-13: 9780873513869

On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape of a white woman, were pulled from their jail cells and lynched by a mob numbering in the thousands. Michael Fedo, a former journalist, tells the story in a clear, sober manner, weaving a skilful narrative. Using newspaper accounts, court records, state files, and interviews with ageing and often reluctant witnesses, he recounts the small but telling stories of individual participants and observers -- both blacks and whites -- in a manner that casts them as ordinary people caught up in an extraord

Authors:Maryanne C. Norton, Sheldon T. Aubut,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, minnesota, duluth
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-07-30
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738518913
ISBN-13: 9780738518916

Duluth, Minnesota, ìThe Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas,î is located on the shores of Lake Superior. Once a center for shipping, lumber, mining, steel, railroads, grain, and one of the nationís largest ports, it housed some of the wealthiest people in the country. During the 1880s, the New York newspapers believed that within 20 years it would be larger than Chicago. ÝÝDue to all of this wealth, the city grew at a remarkable rate, yet it also suffered through several recessions that almost destroyed it. With many handsome houses and remarkable buildings, Duluthís architectural heritage

Author: John Leopard
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: railroad, color, history, mbi, railway, missabe, amp, range, duluth
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0760317623
ISBN-13: 9780760317624

One of the most fascinating mainline railroads in North America is a gem tucked away in scenic Northeastern Minnesota: the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railroad. Tasked with hauling taconite pellets and ore from the region’s iron mines to the ports of Lake Superior, the DM&IR is a cherished link to the region’s past. This illustrated history traces the road’s late-nineteenth century origins in the Duluth & Iron Range and the Duluth, Missabe & Northern railroads. The book’s primary focus, however, is on the period from 1937—the year those two roads merged under U.S

Author: Frank Alexander King
Publisher: University of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: missabe, minnesota, heritage, book, series, lampert, fesler, road, duluth, range, railway
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0816640831
ISBN-13: 9780816640836

In 1865, the nation’s largest iron ore deposits were discovered in northern Minnesota, and life in the area was irrevocably altered as an economic boom transformed the region. In the 1880s and 1890s, two railroads, the Duluth and Iron Range Rail Road and the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway (which later merged), moved massive shipments of ore to the docks on Lake Superior. The Missabe Road tells the complete story of the DM&IR: its construction, early operation, line extensions, passenger service, rolling stock, steam locomotives, and today’s modern diesels. Frank King examines