In this story of Bob Dylan’s hometown, Filmmaker Karl Jacob and Author Aaron Brown reveal the buried origins of the people's triumph over corporate overreach.
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Karl and Aaron narrate the end of the series with a surprising discovery. Victor Power returns from a long Alaskan expedition in good spirits, only to find his village in political chaos. Mayor John Gannon tried to negotiate with U.S. Steel over the move of the remaining portion of North Hibbing, only for the company to undercut his ideas and leave…
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9: The Square Deal vs. the Square Meal
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Victor Power’s deal with Michael Godfrey creates a new village in South Hibbing. A new city hall and school are on the way, along with an unparalleled downtown business district for a town of this size. But the political unity that marked Power’s rise to prominence is breaking apart. Some residents lose out when the village moves south, while young…
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Weary from the tax fight, the strike, and the graft trials, Victor Power hopes that 1917 is the year he returns to building his vision for Hibbing and a future campaign for governor. A new superintendent of the Oliver Iron Mining Company in Hibbing, Michael Godfrey, decides to change tactics, befriending Power instead of fighting him. As the United…
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Peace between Power and U.S. Steel doesn’t last long. As European war demand raises the price of steel, the value of iron ore in the land around Hibbing rises with it. As it does, miners decide they deserve better than poverty wages. When they went on strike in 1916 it became the biggest labor uprising in Iron Range history. Here, Mayor Power tries…
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6: We Should Keep That Which is Ours
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Hibbing’s population is exploding faster than the mine blasts on the edge of town. Vic’s policies prove hugely popular and the town prospers. However, the world is changing. Half the people in Hibbing come from Europe where the first World War just broke out. The demand for steel is about to skyrocket which means the pressure from the mining compan…
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Victor Power quickly implements the most ambitious slate of public improvements in the history of Hibbing, unprecedented for a village of this size anywhere in the United States. He does this by doing the one thing that the Oliver Iron Mining Company can’t stand: raising taxes. Streets get paved and bright, beautiful new lights are installed. New s…
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4: Where the Mines End and the Village Begins
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Victor Power is now the Mayor of Hibbing, but his first action surprises many. Vic follows former Mayor Weirick to a posh resort in French Lick Springs, Indiana, for a private one-on-one meeting. Power’s working vacation allows his friends to vet candidates for a new administration. With Vic at the helm, this new government aims to develop this wil…
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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 …
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What will Victor Power do next? Beaming, yet cautious after an “impossible” victory defending an immigrant miner against a murder charge for winning a pistol duel, Now “Fightin’ Vic” confronts the massive corporation that rules the small village of Hibbing, Minnesota. We begin this episode in an unexpected place: Mexico. We end with explosions, ani…
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Filmmaker Karl Jacob and author Aaron Brown take a road-trip-movie style journey through time to unlock the mystery of Bob Dylan’s hometown, and their hometown, Hibbing, Minnesota. They find a dynamic mayor named Victor Power who left few traces after his mysterious death almost a century ago. His political ghost still haunts an opulent, castle-lik…
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