The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature. Longfellow's sources for the legends and ethnography
Hiawatha Service was added to the "Hiawatha". The "Hiawatha Service" is the second-shortest route on the Amtrak system, with the first being the "New Haven–Springfield Shuttle". Historically, the "Hiawathas" were operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also known as the "Milwaukee Road") and initially traveled from Chicago to the Twin Cities. The first "Hiawatha" trains ran in 1935. By 1946, there were actually four routes carrying the "Hiawatha" name: Chicago–Minneapolis, Chicago–Omaha, Chicago–Wausau–Minocqua, and Chicago-Minneapolis-Seattle. The "Hiawathas" were among the world's fastest trains in the 1930s and 1940s, and these trains reached some of their peak speeds on this