3: VOTERS, LOOK!

Power in The Wilderness

Aaron and Karl learn just how hard it is to track a man who’s been dead for almost a century. Fresh off a stunning legal victory over U.S. Steel, Victor Power the young lawyer becomes Victor Power the crafty political leader. Using deft strategy, brilliant oratory, and a keen sense of timing, Power barges into the municipal election and upsets the longest serving mayor of Hibbing to that point, Dr. H.R. Weirick, an acolyte of the Oliver Iron Mining Company. But he didn’t do it by himself. Power’s Progressive Party ticket was elevated by immigrants and merchants who had grown tired of company rule and wanted improvements to this rough and rowdy mining village in the middle of nowhere. Vic also had his sister-in-law, Dottie Power, who quietly became a groundbreaking progressive leader and businesswoman in her own right. In just a few days Vic Power started a revolution in Hibbing that would reverberate all the way to corporate headquarters in New York. A new philosophy ruled Hibbing, one that led to a catchy saying, “If Vic Power has a pig, everyone in town gets a ham sandwich.”