The Song of Hiawatha of Longfellow's poem nevertheless led to the name "Hiawatha" becoming attached to a number of locales and enterprises in areas more historically associated with the Ojibwe than the Iroquois. The poem was published on November 10, 1855, by Ticknor and Fields and was an immediate success. In 1857, Longfellow calculated that it had sold 50,000 copies. Longfellow chose to set "The Song of Hiawatha" at the Pictured Rocks, one of the locations along the south shore of Lake Superior favored by narrators of the Manabozho stories. The "Song" presents a legend of Hiawatha and his lover "Minnehaha" in 22 chapters
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