This event is part of the summer speaker series hosted by the Sawtooth Interpretive & Historical Association at the Stanley Museum:

George Z. Blackmon (1854-1936) was born enslaved in Kentucky and became one of the first black settlers to central Idaho. He found his way to the White Cloud Mountains where he lived and mined for over fifty years. This presentation asks why he, a former slave, chose central Idaho as his home and explores the story of one of central Idaho’s most interesting early settlers.