The Song of Hiawatha 1950). American landscape painters referred to the poem to add an epic dimension to their patriotic celebration of the wonders of the national landscape. Albert Bierstadt presented his sunset piece, "The Departure of Hiawatha," to Longfellow in 1868 when the poet was in England to receive an honorary degree at the University of Cambridge. Other examples include Thomas Moran's "Fiercely the Red Sun Descending, Burned His Way along the Heavens" (1875), held by the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the panoramic waterfalls of "Hiawatha and Minnehaha on their Honeymoon" (1885) by Jerome Thompson (1814 – 1886). Thomas Eakins made
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