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Lecture 10, "Fire on the Ice" discussed the history of politics on the Plains. In the beginning of the lecture 10 we talked about how on the Plains we tend to be conservative. I think this was proven in the recent election when most of the Plains states were shown red or republican. We most often elect a republican into state offices and then Democrats into national offices. Mr. Isern explained this with the state level republicans would avoid heavy taxing in the state and the Democrats in the national offices would keep money coming into the state. Here on the Plains we seem to have it figured out in such a way to benefit the Plains- we are pretty smart.
We then discussed the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, Farmer's Alliance and Social and Nonpartisan League which had traits of socialist.
Mr. Isern then told the class about Gordon Call. Call didn't pay his taxes and broke laws. He always seemed to escape the law. Isern, told of the shoot- out Call had with the Federal Marshall's. I found this story to be extremely funny- one man could escape the law so many times and for so long.
I found Lecture 10 to be extremely interesting, especially with the recent presidential election.