Duluth: Communications
Duluth: Communications
Newspapers and Magazines
Duluth's major daily newspaper is the morning Duluth News-Tribune. Several suburban newspapers and shopping guides circulate weekly. Labor World, a labor newspaper established in 1895, appears biweekly on Wednesdays. The Duluthian, a bimonthly, is published by the Chamber of Commerce with a business and community orientation. Lake Superior Magazine, also published bimonthly, features articles and photography about the region. A number of special-interest magazines are published in the city on such subjects as mining and mineral processing, the restaurant industry, and the dental profession.
Television and Radio
More than a dozen television stations, representing the major networks and PBS, broadcast in Duluth, which also receives programming from Hibbing; cable programming is available by subscription. Some 30 AM and FM radio stations offer a variety of formats, including classical, contemporary, and country music, religious programming, news, and public interest features.
Media Information: Duluth News-Tribune, 424 W. 1st St., Duluth, MN 55802; telephone (218)723-5313. The Duluthian, Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce, 5 W. 1st St., Ste. 101, Duluth, MN 55802; telephone (218)722-5501
Duluth Online
City of Duluth home page. Available www.ci.duluth.mn.us
Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce. Available www.duluthchamber.com
Duluth Convention & Visitors Bureau. Available www.visitduluth.com
Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. Available www.duluthconventioncenter.com or www.decc.org
Duluth News-Tribune. Available www.duluthsuperior.com
Duluth Public Library. Available www.duluth.lib.mn.us
Duluth Public Schools. Available www.duluth.k12.mn.us
Minnesota Historical Society. Available www.mnhs.org
Northeast Minnesota Historical Society Archives. Available www.d.umn.edu/lib/collections
Selected Bibliography
Hertzel, Laurie (ed.), Boomtown Landmarks (Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishing, 1993)
Sutter, Barton, Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map (University of Minnesota Press, 1998)
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Bison: back from the brink.
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Once the hooves of tens of millions of bison thundered across vast tracts of North America...to both First Nations and settlers, the bison stood in the way of the Europeans' westward expansion. That alone sealed the bison's fate. The American version of the...
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Bison Advocates Hold Rally On The Capitol Lawn Gathering in Helena to Hold Schweitzer Accountable for Largest Slaughter Since 1800s.
M2 Presswire; 5/14/2008; 700+ words
; ...14 May 2008-Buffalo Field Campaign: Bison Advocates Hold Rally On The Capitol Lawn...LTD RDATE:13052008 HELENA, MT -- Wild bison advocates will gather in Helena, Montana...Schweitzer's role in the largest wild bison slaughter since the 1800s and to ask him...
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Bison slaughter increases in Yellowstone; Yellowstone National Park sends 30 more bison to slaughterhouse; Captures 44 more.
M2 Presswire; 2/13/2008; 700+ words
; ...February 2008-Buffalo Field Campaign: Bison slaughter increases in Yellowstone; Yellowstone National Park sends 30 more bison to slaughterhouse; Captures 44 more...Park officials sent 30 more wild American bison to slaughter this morning, without testing...
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Bison are happy together on prairie
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 6/25/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Happy Together. Category? Songs for a bison, one of the most notorious herd animals...virtually die of loneliness," explained bison rancher Jerry Ransom, who keeps 75 head in the same territory where bison roamed 150 years ago -- the Turtle Mountain...
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Bison have increased -- mostly as hybrids
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/9/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...The animals certainly looked like bison, with the characteristic humps and beards...truck slowly rolled up to them, and a bison wrangler shot a drug- filled dart into...the animal and take blood samples. This bison wrangling was being done to test the genetics...
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BISON The other red meat
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 4/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION A bison stands near the gate of its pen waiting for the morning meal at the Broken Wagon Bison farm in Wheeler. Bison meat is becoming more popular because it has a much...
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Bison at home in NZ
Newspaper article from: The Press; 1/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; Bison, which once roamed the North American prairies...Billy. Beyond a quiet grunt, the mature bison bull of more than 1000kg of moving muscle...however, as meek as a lamb, Garth says. "Bison are on par with quiet cattle. Even though...
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Bison management plan failing: park service to slaughter nearly 500 Yellowstone bison.
M2 Presswire; 1/18/2006; 700+ words
; ...January 2006-Buffalo Field Campaign: Bison management plan failing: park service to slaughter nearly 500 Yellowstone bison(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...Service (NPS) captured 211 Yellowstone bison yesterday, bringing the total number...
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Bison Taking a Place on Ranches, Dinner Plates; Buffalo Are Now Found in Every State as Their Popularity Has Increased
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/24/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...little wild at Matthew and Jozet Bowen's bison ranch on the Idaho border. A dozen vehicles...Bowen shifted from raising cattle to bison a year and a half ago. A lot of people are taking up raising bison as a hobby or a profession, which has...
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Bison industry quietly growing in United States
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/31/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Worldstream 01-31-2006 Dateline: DENVER The irony of bison ranching isn't lost on Dave Carter. Recovering...executive director of the Colorado-based National Bison Association. About 35,000 bison were processed in the U.S. last year, up 17...
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Bison
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Bison America ’ s largest mammal The American bison ( Bison bison ) is a large, herbivorous land mammal native to the grasslands and open forests of North America. It is a member of the family Bovidae, which also includes cattle, sheep...
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bison
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
bison large hoofed mammal, genus Bison, of the cattle family. Bison have short horns and humped, heavily mantled shoulders that slope downward to the hindquarters. The European bison, or wisent , Bison bonasus, has a less luxuriant mane and...
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Buffalo (Bison)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
BUFFALO (BISON) BUFFALO (BISON). Until the end of the last Ice Age, bison were a minor species in North America. As a warming climate destroyed much of the forage upon which Ice Age megafauna such as mammoths and mastodons relied, and as...
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BiSON
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
BiSON Abbr. for Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network .
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Lipan Apache
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...horse," and ' iyane is the word for "bison"; thus, their name could well have referred...subsistence pattern: that of following bison herds on horseback. Location. In the...Lipan place them either in the vicinity of bison herds or occupying river bottom lands...
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