Duluth in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota. He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to desiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through. He drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows alongshore.

Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields.... The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to seaparte him from his money.... [This] sent him to sea in a yacht.... He had been coasting along all to hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz's desinty in Little Girl Bay.

To young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world. I suppose he smiled at Cody--he had probably discovered that people liked him when he smiled. At any rate Cody asked him a few questions (one of them elicited the brand new name [Gatsby]) and found that he was quick and extravagantly ambitious. A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pairs of white duck trousers, and a yachting cap. And when the Tuolumne left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too.... (100-101)

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 1925