ABSTRACT
On Tuesday, 31 July 1984, the city of Hibbing in the Iron Range region of northern Minnesota’s St Louis County celebrated Greyhound Bus Day. Most people, whether bus travellers or not, associate Greyhound either with its recent base in Phoenix or with its earlier head office in Chicago. Most historians who are interested in modern transport developments would hesitate to focus on any specific location, suggesting instead that the nation’s leading bus operation had diverse and multiple origins. The most important acquisition of personnel took place when the Northland acquired the Superior-White Company and its major entrepreneur, Orville S. Caesar. Caesar’s mechanical skills, business acumen and ambition would eventually lead him to the presidency of the Greyhound Corporation. Minnesota bus operators were prepared to launch into big business with the Northland.
