Idaho’s History Could End Up Mocking Its Future, Or Not

Lynching and Looking

By Shea Andersen, 4-11-06

The Associated Press's top dog in the Statehouse, John Miller, took a peek at the Legislature's upcoming temporary home, and was surprised at what he found: a bit of the West's checkered past.

The Idaho Legislature is set to move, temporarily, into an abandoned part of the Boise courthouse next year, while the current Capital undergoes a major overhaul. While they're there, lawmakers will get to feast their eyes on a certain mural that depicts the hanging of an Indian by two settlers.

Miller drops that bomb into the laps of Idaho lawmakers, and lets them duke it out. The Idaho Statesman ran the story today.

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