The man who tried to single-handedly build a Duluth-Fargo highway

As a state legislator, Gordon Bushnell couldn't pass a bill to construct the 200-mile road. So he grabbed a shovel and wheelbarrow, completing about 12 miles by the time he died at age 81 in 1982.

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