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The book includes narration and 50 wonderful pictures depicting button box, accordion, and concertina players, as well as Tamburitzans with accompanying instruments of each.

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The ghost town locations chosen for this compilation were Section 30 (near Ely), Penobscot (Hibbing), Cooley (Nashwauk), Spruce/Chickentown (Eveleth), Costin (Mountain Iron), Fraser (Chisholm), and Manganese.

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Winston City (not Winton) was the first ghost town when gold prospectors left after failing to find profitable gold. The other ghost towns in the book include; Old Mesaba (near Hoyt Lakes), Merritt (near Biwabik), Elcor (near McKinley), North Hibbing, and Hinsdale (near Hoyt Lakes).

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The area of Soudan is given credit as the first source of iron ore in the Superior and Duluth area. Mountain Iron and Biwabik take honors as firsts in the mining industry on the Mesabi Range. The cover photo is of North Hibbing, which had to be moved as the mine approached.

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The cover in color is of the 100-year old Eveleth City Hall at the ceremony during the removal of the 100-year time capsule. Fifty photos in black and white are featured showing the architecture of various Range towns and information on each.

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James Korpi wrote this book on commercial and emergency vehicles used on the Iron Ranges through the years. The cover in color shows the burning of the McKinley School.

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The photographs for this book were taken from 15 albums belonging to IRHS beginning with the Soudan Mine in 1884. The book covers pick and shovel days, steam shovels, trains, small trucks whose front ends rose up if overfilled, to the huge trucks being used in the taconite mining era of today.

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The Beauty book cover in color is of the Embarrass Lake between Biwabik and Aurora. Included are the most attractive photographs of 50 of Iron Range cities and towns with brief information on all of them.

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This calendar may not be accurate again until 2026 but at this price what's to stop you from buying it and owning a piece of history? As a bonus, you get to enjoy the cartoons of Kettner.

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Raymond A. Newman was a remarkable man blessed with the gift of a razor memory and the keen ability to sort through the dirt of every day life to unearth the treasures of the human condition. With a voice solely his own, he tells the tale of a unique place and time that was the Iron Range of Northern Minnesota at the beginning of the 20th century. His story offers a rare look at the melting pot of that era, an era few of us could even begin to comprehend.

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This book written in 2008 is, in its entirety, concerned with Gilbert photographs and information from the city’s beginning. The IRHS, located in the old Gilbert City Hall, has hundreds of photos of the Gilbert area.

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In March of 1951, a basketball team from tiny Gilbert, Minnesota, battled its way into the Minnesota State High School Basketball Tournament, the state’s single biggest sports spectacle of that era. Led by their innovative head coach, a 6’9” 245-pound center, a skinny junior with uncanny long-range shooting skills, and a floor leader playing on one healthy leg, these indomitable Basketball Buccaneers won the state title and captured the hearts of an entire state. Book includes three original game radio broadcast CDs.

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This book has photos and information on gardens; planting, harvesting, and selling food in the Iron Range area. This is not a recipe book, but it does contain some ethnic recipes: wild rice soup, Finnish pulla and pea soup, Scandinavian Lutefisk, Slovenian potica, Cornish pasty, and Italian spaghetti.

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With the help of the John Deere Company, allowing us to use their photo for our green/yellow/black front cover, this was the first in the ongoing series of books published by IRHS yearly. The photos include lumberjacks, horses carrying huge loads of logs on ice roads, and many photos from the collection of Nick Shank. The story in this book is of Nick Shank’s logging efforts south of Biwabik.

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Recollections of a homesteader in Palo, Minnesota; a small rural community in Northeastern Minnesota. She also recounts her efforts to attain success by leaving her home and family and eventually by finding her way back home again. This booklet contains many references about the early settlement of Palo.

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This manuscript was written in 1949 and gives insight into one of the many thousands who came to the Iron Range, as it describes how Mr. Wicklund affected some of the changes contributing to the Range’s dynamic growth and development. The book takes the reader from Sweden to America and then across the world through the eyes of a diamond driller.