Hello. I first started hiking the state parks along Highway #61 in the summer of 2000. I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY. I was a private guitar teacher in Chicago during that time...and every August in 2000...2001...2002...and 2003 I would rent a car and hike by myself (none of my friends in Chicago wanted to travel that far up north). My first year there...I hiked many state parks and my favorite memory is hiking back to Grand Portage from the Grand Portage Trail at sunset. I heard these drums beating louder and louder as I approached Grand Portage...and I happened to stumble upon an American Indian "Pow Wow" combined with a "Renaissance Festival"...during a FULL MOON!!! It truly felt like it was the 1800's. I was 34 at the time...and this experience blew my mind...

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Nice documentary. It is so neat to see people that I have met talk about the history.

Thank you for sharing. I'm originally from the Mesabi Region (Aurora and Biwabik) and feel that documenting the history and heritage of the area is wonderful - well done!

I remember driving on that first road and thought how wonderful it was.

That's a Cornish pasty. They mined tin in Cornwall and there was arsenic in the rock. The trick was to hold the rim. Eat the pasty and throw the rim away. Good video.

Really nice documentary. Good knowledge and historical values.

Who's from Tower? great grand father is buried in Eveleth , he worked in the mines ..

Turn these trails into a national treasure. Protect them from strip malls, timeshares, and urban sprawl.

Jim Oberstar was a crazy biker and pushed this trail. Need to continue to the Red River that flows to the Hudson Bay

Beautiful country the northland

My family is from SOUTH BRANCH, ST.JAMES, MINNESOTA, were there any stories know in or around this area?

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I have pride in Minnesota, my family still farms in Minnesota, 6 generations. But I will never live in Minnesota again. Not after what has happened and how Minnesota treats its people.

Would be cool to go metal detect this trail 👣 🤔

Were those miner immigrants you were talking about legal immigrants?? Just wandering??

Video starts out with jerry walking all over a xc ski trail, which has signs and rules for walkers.....................

Just to be accurate the “pasty” isn’t Welsh, it is most associated with Cornwall, hence the accepted name used being the “Cornish pasty”, originally the pasty was divided into two different halves, one half being savoury filling and the other a sweet filling, the different halves would have been identified using a shape, letter, or blob of pastry, and the crimped edge of the pasty was indeed used as a handle, the person eating it was usually but not exclusively a miner, in the tin mines, but there weren’t any facilities to wash hands (or the time, time was money), so the person eating it would consume it holding the edge and once finished would discard the crimped edge of the pastry. Many countries or regions have a similar type of pie or pastry, but to be original it has to be made in Cornwall, and I believe, like champagne, the name “Cornish pasty “ has protected status. Just thought viewers might like to know the true origins of the not so humble “pasty”. The section about the Gun Flint Trail and chik Wauk lodge was fascinating, I wish that places like this were known to the wider world when I was in my prime, I would have loved to have done a “road trip” to experience the great American wilderness, unfortunately KZfaq came along to late for me, I will just have to enjoy these wonderful videos from the PBS of American States, thanks for sharing it with me. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Haha. Those were LEGAL IMMAGRANTS!!!! NOT ILLEGAL IMMAGRANTS! quit lying!!!

We would be breathing clean air

The Pasty Recipe was stolen From Judith H. back when she was a neighbor of the Carlson family. Carlson family was into selling anything back in the late 70s and early 80s Boats, Bait, Wild Game , meat processing, and even games of Chance.( Gambling) Especially around the holidays. 💪👁️ I know everything. 😂😂 Definition of a first avenue family.

So sad to see Minnesota turning into another California. My great grandparents immigrated to Northern Minnesota in the late 1800s and settled up in Buhl and my great grandfather Robert Murphy was the mining Superintendant at the Buhl open pit mine. My grandfather Samuel Thompson and my uncles all worked at the mine. I always wanted to leave California and retire in MN but not now.

Presumptuous

immigrants from Europe?

the old guy giving the tour of the mines...what a dbag...my god i never realized minnesota was so liberal. my wife and I wanted to retire somewhere cold and snowy but it wont be there!