Myths, Legends, and Notorious Tales
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Myths:
- Barnstorming the Bridge
- Fur Post Ruins in Chamber's Grove?
- Jay Cooke in Duluth, but at the Clarkhouse Hotel?
- The Legend(s) of the Duluth Ship Canal Dig
- A Few Hauntings
- The Ghost Fleet of Lake Superior
- A Legend of Spirit Island
Notorious True Tales:
- Mr. Being and the Duluth Ship Canal
- The 1905 Mataafa Storm
- Bear v. Drunk at the Hotel Duluth
- Casualties of the Duluth Ship Canal
- Duluth’s “Neptune” Statue
- Wreck of the Interstate Bridge
- The Infamous Lynchings of 1921
- The Lynching of Olli Kinkkonen
- Park Point Pirates
- The Prentice Claim (on Chief Buffalo’s land)
What They Said about Duluth
- A Week in Duluth (Atlantic Monthly, 1870)
- Recollections of Moses Armstrong (1871)
- Pioneer Recollections of William Epler
- The Promise of Duluth (1910)
- "Duluth" (Saturday Evening Post, 1949)
- Proctor Knott’s “The Untold Delights of Duluth” (1871)
- Autobiography of Alfred Merritt
- Autobiography of Camille Poirer
- The Recollections of George Stuntz
