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A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see the Zenith City.

Featuring 475 vintage lithographic postcards and 20 historic paintings and etchings, Zenith is the only full-color history of the western Lake Superior region available anywhere, covering Duluth, Superior, Minnesota's Iron Range and Arrowhead, the Minnesota North Shore, the Wisconsin South Shore and Apostle Islands, and Michigan's Isle Royale. Complete with a narrative history of the region plus brief histories of each postcard topic, Zenith does what a good postcard should: provides readers with a unique perspective of what life was like in a certain place and time.

Discover what Duluth has lost. Through over 400 photographs and sketches of vanished homes, buildings, landmarks, industries, and residential neighborhoods, Lost Duluth takes readers on a journey through the city's past, introducing them to the people--from hard-scrabble pioneers to wealthy industrialists to impoverished immigrant laborers--whose ambitions and dreams built the Zenith City on a swamp and a rocky hillside at the head of the Great Lakes. A finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. "Duluth has always been a city like none other in the Midwest, with an architectural history as distinctive as its steep hills, rushing creeks and lakeside vistas. Lost Duluth offers a beautifully illustrated look at some of the city's most prominent vanished buildings, from grand Victorian mansions and row houses to monumental works of public and commercial architecture. This book will make you pine for the city of old while opening your eyes to unimagined wonders, and even life-long residents will be surprised to find how much has been lost on the destructive road to progress." -- Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities and Once There Were Castles

"Over 200 modern and historic photographs guide you along a detailed room-by-room tour of Minnesota's most famous mansion and stroll through the estate grounds as you learn the story of the Congdon family and how Chester created the fortune that financed their grand home on Lake Superior's North Shore."--Amazon.com.

The aerial bridge over the Duluth Ship Canal has been called "Duluth's Eiffel Tower" and the "gateway to the world," but no matter what lofty labels poets and politicians appluy to it, Duluth built its ffamous bridge for one simple purpose: Crossing the Canal. In 1871 the citizens of Duluth finished cutting a canal through Minnesota Point, turning the isthmus into an island and splitting the fledgling city in two. It would take almost 35 years before a safe, permanent, and truly unique bridge was built to cross the canal and reunite Duluth with the community of Park Point, making the city whiole again. Crossing the Canal tells the complete story of the bridge, from cutting the canal through the bridge's 100th anniversary, separating facts from myths while creating a vivid picture of the life of Duluth's iconic landmark. A finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.

In 50 brief tales, award-winning Minnesota author and historian Tony Dierckins chronicles the life of Duluth's famed aerial bridge, from the span's construction as an aerial transfer bridge to its 1930 conversion into a vertical lift bridge, from how it works to how it came to symbolize the Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas. You'll also discover the remarkable history of the canal it crosses, including the myth of its creation, the lighthouses that grace its piers, and Duluth's 35-year struggle to build a bridge over it. Illustrated with over 125 historic & modern photos, sketches, maps & diagrams

"Glensheen as it has not been seen in over 100 years. Inside you will find 115 photographs-- most never before seen by the public-- of Glensheen, the historic Congdon estate along the shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. Many of the images were captured in 1909, the year the Congdons first moved in; they show the house newly decorated and the 22-acre estate just as Chester Congdon had envisioned. Late photos, taken after Chester's death, show how Clara Congdon allowed the grounds to grow wild. Discover historic Glensheen through photos of: more than half of the mansion's 39 rooms, including the reception room, library, den, living room, dining room, breakfast room, and the bedroom of every family member; the boathouse, gardener's cottage, and carriage house, as well as four greenhouses that have been lost to time; the estate grounds-- including the stone bridge over Tischer Creek and the rustic wooden bridges that once traversed the creek and Bent Broom-- and beyond to Congdon Park"--Back cover.

History of the breweries that served Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, from 1859 to 2018. Includes nearly 600 photos and lithographs.

Duluths remarkable park system consists of about 170 properties and roadways encompassing approximately 12,000 acresthats roughly 25 percent of the entire city dedicated to public parks.