Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter lifting a pack out of a canoe, Isle of Pines, Knife Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, ca. 1960s.

Dorothy Molter lifting a pack out of a canoe

Dorothy Molter lifting a pack out of a canoe, Isle of Pines, Knife Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, ca. 1960s.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter, Jule, and Verena at Bearskin Portage in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, ca. 1960s.

Dorothy Molter at Bearskin Portage

Dorothy Molter, Jule, and Verena at Bearskin Portage in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, ca. 1960s.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter holding a lake trout, ca. 1940s.

Dorothy Molter with trout

Dorothy Molter holding a lake trout, ca. 1940s.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter and Bill Berglund, ca. 1930s.

Dorothy Molter and Bill Berglund

Nebs (dog), Bill Berglund (original owner of the Isle of Pines Resort), and Dorothy Molter at Point Cabin, Isle of Pines, Knife Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, ca. 1930s.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter in a nurse’s uniform, ca. late 1920s.

Dorothy Molter in a nurse’s uniform

Dorothy Molter in a nurse’s uniform, ca. late 1920s.

Black and white photograph of Dorthy Molter in high school, ca. 1925.

Dorothy Molter in high school

Dorothy Molter’s high school graduation portrait, ca. 1925.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter at her eighth grade graduation, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1920.

Dorothy Molter in eighth grade

Dorothy Molter at her eighth grade graduation, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1920.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter as a toddler, Arnold, Pennsylvania, ca. 1909.

Dorothy Molter as a toddler

Dorothy Molter as a toddler, Arnold, Pennsylvania, ca. 1909.

Color image of Dorothy Molter at the door of her summer tent on Knife Lake, ca. 1985.

Dorothy Molter

Dorothy Molter at the door of her summer tent on Knife Lake, ca. 1985.

Molter, Dorothy (1907–1986)

Pennsylvania native Dorothy Molter spent over fifty years in Northern Minnesota, where she helped to run the Isle of Pines resort and provided nursing care for those in need. From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, she made batches of homemade root beer at her cabin on Knife Lake that drew thousands of tourists, anglers, and canoeists each summer and earned her the nickname “the Root Beer Lady.”

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