Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha (1952 film) Hiawatha is a 1952 American film based on the 1855 epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, centering on Native Americans in pre-Columbian times. Directed by Kurt Neumann, with stars Vincent Edwards and Yvette Dugay, it became the final feature produced by the low-budget Monogram Pictures, a mainstay of Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hiawatha, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is on a peace mission to the Dakotah tribe. He meets and falls in love with Minnehaha. The romance is obstructed by a threatened war between the two tribes, instigated by a hot-headed Ojibway tribe
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