I've lived in Hunters Park for ten years, and done a lot of reading on it and a lot of walking it, since I have had rather demanding dogs for the last five of those years. 

The Hunters and Macfarlanes, who platted and founded the neighborhood were very intent on creating a sort of gentleman farmer atmosphere, and this is reflected all over if you can look around and imagine the houses built post 1925 don't exist. There were big manicured lawns and it looked very idyllic. Lots of people had a cow or two, and some of the outbuildings that remain on the old estates still have stalls for them. 

The streets are almost all named for Scots people and places (with a few highbrow colleges thrown in to inspire the children, I guess), usually with a connection to either the Macfarlanes or Hunters, whose families lived here, along with a whole lot of Who's Who of Early Duluth names. (The women's first name streets are for the Macfarlane and Hunter women. I'll be writing an article on them for Zenith City Online down the pike.) Looking at early directories really gives you a sense that these guys all knew each other and you can almost imagine them doffing their top hats at the streetcar stops, and their children all popping into the McGhie store (which was in the Snow White building, which is now the casket shop and flower shop etc.). I have seen the old account register of McGhie's store and it's really cool to see the names of all the children of those big local names signing for penny candy and suchlike. 

Carol Bly grew up on my street, and wrote a small book about it: An Adolescent's Christmas. I have a half-assed fantasy of getting the name (Butte) changed back to its originally intended "Bute"--in part because it annoys me that there is no butte here, and it isn't for the town in Montana, and because I encounter way too many people who think I live on "Butt" Street. argh. (I have encountered some skepticism on this point, but original plats by the developers clearly spelt it Bute--Bute was a very popular Scots vacation island during Victorian times, and there's little doubt the Hunters included it as a Scots name they were familiar with.)

Ask the Historian: The Old Snow White

All the avenues from 15th Avenue East to 39th Avenue East used to have different names, until they were changed by ordinance June 14, 1892:

 "The Common Council of the City of Duluth do Ordain: Names of Avenues Changed. Section 1. That the names of all avenues east of Fourteenth avenue east in the city of Duluth be dispensed with and that said avenues be numbered in the following manner, to wit:
New York Ave -15th Ave E
Pennsylvania Ave-16th Ave E
Maryland Ave-17th Ave E
Ohio Avenue-18th Ave E
Indiana Ave-19th Ave E
Missouri Ave-20th Ave E
Oregon Ave-21st Ave E
Montana Ave-22nd Ave E
California Ave-23rd Ave E
Virginia Ave-24th Ave E
Dakota Ave-25th Ave E
Kentucky Ave-26th Ave E
Massachusetts Ave-27th Ave E
Connecticut Ave-28th Ave E
Delaware and St. Louis ave-29th Ave E
Idaho and Superior Ave-30th Ave E
California and St. Marie Ave-31st Ave E
Georgia and Michigan ave-32nd ave e
Wisconsin and Mackinaw Ave.-33rd Ave. E
Alabama and Claire ave-34th ave e
Erie ave-36th Ave E
Niagara Ave-37th Ave E
Ontario Ave-38th Ave E
St. Lawrence Ave-39th Ave E

Emma, I don't know about a book, but from what I've seen in pictures and descriptions, Duluth was Big Trees up to the Shore. Ojibwe portaged over the sandbar that was Minnesota Point, had a village out there on the point, but probably that camp was not for year-round. Had a more permanent village down at Fond du Lac. A canoe pull-out point also on Rice's Point. It was alternately swamp and Big Pines. Then when the Treaty was signed and white people could legally move in, it was CUT ALL THE TREES pretty much as soon as possible. Within 10-20 years (1854 was the treaty, and legit non-fur trader types started arriving in 1857), the hillsides up to the crest of the hills were denuded, and it was all mud and rocks. For a really long time, pictures of Duluth are pretty much bare of old trees. Mud streets, and no trees, and lots of rocks. We probably have more trees now than there's been here in 150 years.

All the histories I've read on the Ojibwe are really old and really racist. You have to read them with a whole lot of tolerance for crazy. I wouldn't recommend any of them.