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
North Coast Hiawatha of the company's six most beautiful. The train also provided a convenient connection to Yellowstone National Park at Livingston, Montana. On November 14, 1971, Amtrak formally named this service the "North Coast Hiawatha", For four days a week, it ran independently of the "Empire Builder" from the Twin Cities to Spokane. On the other three days of the week, it combined with the "Empire Builder" in Spokane for the trip to Seattle. Amtrak initially named the Minneapolis train "Hiawatha", but adopted the "Twin Cities Hiawatha" name on January 16, 1972. Amtrak reverted to "Hiawatha" on October 29, and this name