50 STATES 50 MOVIES: IDAHO

Leaning Into Individuality Where There's Neither A Need, Nor A Desire, To Conform

Napoleon Dynamite

Someone once told me a story about how Idaho was named. George Willing, a Pennsylvania-born prospector who claimed to be the chosen representative to the US government from the unorganized “Jefferson Territory” (but wasn’t truly, it was 19th Century, who was going to check?), went to Washington during the Civil War to advocate for a ne…