June 26, 2025

Minneapolis native Dāv Kaufman “travels to new, remote, and sometimes dangerous wild destinations on every continent on earth” to shoot videos for his four YouTube channels. In this week’s edition of Dāv Kaufman Eats the World, he travels to the most remote and wild of destinations possible: Duluth. …

John Clellon Holmes’ 1953 beat jazz novel The Horn contains a couple references to Duluth. In the 1988 edition by Thunder’s Mouth Press, the first mention occurs on page 131. I cite it below with a couple paragraphs for context, which make it clear “Duluth” is used synonymously with “some out-of-the-way city on the road.” …

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