Legendary Tales
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Myths
The Legend(s) of the Duluth Ship Canal Dig
Duluth Aerial Transfer Bridge Myths
Mark Twain: “The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent Was a Summer in Duluth”
Walt Whitman: An unpublished poem about to Duluth?
Notorious Madam Grandma Rosa Brochi
Duluth’s City Hall: Prison & Prohibition Fun House
Dick Bong Barnstormed the Aerial Lift Bridge
Fur Post Ruins Made of Brownstone
Jay Cooke photographed at the Clarkhouse Hotel
The mysterious “Jean Duluth” of Jean Duluth Road
The mysterious “Howard Gnesen” of Howard Gnesen Road
Sean Penn Helped Build the Lift Bridge
Joe Day was Killed in Lincoln Park In 1937
Lake Superior’s Ghost Fleet
A Legend of Spirit Island
True Tales
Robber Barons Battle over the Iron Range
Barnstorming Duluth’s Aerial Bridge
Boeing Tries to Take the Duluth Ship Canal
Bear v. Drunk at the Hotel Duluth
The Town of Fremont Floats Away
Neptune Statue Goes Up in Flames
The Lark of the Lake: Duluth’s “Flying Boat”
False Gold Rush uncovers Iron Ore
Wrecks of the Interstate Bridge, 1906 & 1924
Pirates of Park Point
Rumble on River: A Law-evading Prizefight
Duluth’s Red Scare: Labor Violence, 1918
Call the Midwife, Part 1: Giving Birth in Duluth, 1855–2015
Call the Midwife, Part 2: A Tale of Two Midwives
Tragic Events
The 1905 Mataafa Storm
The Drowning of Richard White
Duluth Ship Canal Tragedies
Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge Tragedies
Duluth’s 1920 Lynchings
Victims of the 1920 Lynchings
The Lynching of Olli Kiukkonen (aka Kinkkonene)
Murders
Duluth’s First Murder
A Killer of a Beer Garden
The Last Legal Hanging in St. Louis County
The Slaying of Dr. J. J Eklund
The Murder of Carl Hoppman
The Palmer House Shootings
Boxer-turned-hitman Norman Mastrian
The Killings at Glensheen
Vice
The Notorious Madam Gain
The Hotel Brunswick: Gamblers, Tramps & Thieves
Duluth’s Opium Dens
The Temperance Movement in Duluth (1870–1919)
Prohibition in Duluth (1916–1933)
Post-Prohibition Liquor Laws in Duluth (1933–2017)
The Lakeside/Lester Park Liquor Issue (1889–2016)
Ignoring Sunday Liquor Laws in Duluth (1856–2017)
Beer, or Down Comes the House!
Duluth’s Rip-Roarin’ Rip-Saw News
The Spook Priestess Swindler
On Duluth
“A Week in Duluth” (Atlantic Monthly, 1870)
Proctor Knott’s “The Untold Delights of Duluth” (1871)
Proctor Knott’s “On Duluth” (1890)
“The Promise of Duluth” (19th-century writers)
Mark Twain: Excerpt from Following the Equator (1897)
Photos of Duluth ca. 1900 by William Henry Jackson
“The Duke of Duluth” (Broadway Musical, 1906)
The Duke of Duluth (Novel, 1926)
“Duluth” (Saturday Evening Post, 1949)
Legends of Sport
The Duluth Kelleys / Eskimos (NFL)
The Duluth Dukes
Baseball’s Many Individual “Duluth Dukes”
Professional Hockey’s “Duke of Duluth”
Horse Racing’s “Duke of Duluth”
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