OPINION: Born in a fight — and built to hold
Christa Hazel
Idaho was not born in calm times.
Our territory was created in 1863 in the middle of the Civil War. The nation was tearing itself apart. Abraham Lincoln was surrounded by rivals, critics, and a divided political class. Newspapers attacked him. Members of his own party undercut him. His cabinet didn’t agree on everything.
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