Butte, Montana? No, its Upper Midwest doppelgänger, Hibbing, Minnesota, where mining for iron ore created giant open pits that gnawed out swaths of the great North Woods. Rough and tumble, a town of hard-working immigrants like Butte, Hibbing seems an unlikely place, perhaps, for producing a force of nature whose poetry would command universal resonance. Pictured here is the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Ore Mine from an overlook on the edge of Hibbing. Dylan road his motorcycle as a teenager through some of the pits. Photo courtesy National Register of History Places, Ref: 66000904