Article: Signing off; An age of Iron Rangers coming to close Steve Cannon's retirement signals the declining visibility of a colorful generation.(NEWS)

As a teenager on Minnesota's Iron Range, Steve Cannon worked summers pulling shifts in the mining pits near Aurora, Minn. It was tough, tedious work, the kind of drudgery that inspired a young man with dreams and ambition to make more of his life.

"I didn't want to work the mines," Cannon said the other day. "This was a great impetus for me."

It was for a generation of Rangers.

Driven by an immigrant work ethic and the prospect of life in an ore pit, people named Perpich, Paulucci, Mariucci, Klobuchar and Popovich moved off the Range in the first half of this century to play large roles in the state's political, business, sports, newspaper and ...

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