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 (train) 29, 1955. On the next day, October 30, 1955, the Milwaukee Road assumed operation of Union Pacific Railroad's "City of San Francisco", "City of Los Angeles", "City of Denver", "City of Portland" and "Challenger" trains. The "Midwest Hiawatha" became two Sioux Falls-Chicago coaches that combined with the "Challenger" in Manilla. The Milwaukee Road dropped the name altogether in April 1956. The "North Woods Hiawatha" began in June 1936, branching off from the main "Hiawatha" route in New Lisbon, Wisconsin to serve Minocqua, Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Road dropped the "Hiawatha" moniker in 1956 and discontinued the service altogether in 1970. A