Popular Culture
The Mesabi Range was brought to public attention by the 2005 film North Country, which depicts a fictionalized version of the events surrounding Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co., a sexual harassment, class-action lawsuit that female miners brought against a Mesabi Range mining company.
The range is also featured in the song "Youngstown", by Bruce Springsteen, from his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad:
- From the Monongahela valley, to the Mesabi Iron Range –
- To the coal mines of Appalachia, the story's always the same.
Bruce lifted the two lines of the above lyric from the opening voice-over by Gregory Peck in the 1945 movie 'Valley of Decision' set in a Pennsylvania steel town http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_Decision
Mesabi is the title song of a 2011 album by Tom Russell: "Some things never change on the Mesabi iron range . . . Bethlehem of the Troubadour Kid (Dylan - see above)"
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