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Greetings from Duluth...
...and Superior, Western Lake Superior’s
North & South Shores, Minnesota’s Arrowhead Country,
and Michigan’s Isle Royale.
During an Independence Day picnic on Minnesota
Point in 1866, newspaper publisher Dr. Thomas Foster (who
produced Duluth’s first paper, the Minnesotian) gave
a grand oration, during which he called Duluth the “Zenith
City of the Unsalted Seas.” It was a speech filled with
optimism; by January 1869 just fourteen families lived at
the base of Minnesota Point. The town, first officially established
in 1856, had already gone bust once. It would rise with the
help of financier Jay Cooke to once again become a city in
1871, only to go bust again a few years later. It wouldn’t
regain its status as a city until 1888.
Zenith: A Postcard Perspective of Historic Duluth
follows the Lake Superior region’s colorful history
from the last ice age to early native cultures, the Dakota
and the Ojibwe, and French and British fur traders through
to the birth of Duluth and Superior, their various boom and
bust years, the advent of the mining and lumber industries,
and on to 1939, when Enger Tower went up and the Incline Railway
came down—and when modern color photography cards replaced
the art of the hand-tinted, lithographic postcard.
Author Tony Dierckins with Eric Eskola and Cathy Wurzer on Twin City Public
Television’s “Almanac.” (Decembr, 2007)
( Click here to watch the video clip.)
$20 plus shipping and handling
11" x 8.5" • 500 vintage lithographic
postcards• 208 pages
Includes a free copy of Greetings
from the Arrowhead!
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