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Article: FAME FOUND OUT WEST\ NEWPORT NATIVE SERVED AS FIFTH GOVERNOR OF IDAHO.(Kentucky Life)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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Byline: JIM REIS
Frank Williams Hunt was surely a kindred spirit with Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton. But he lived more than a century too late to tame the Kentucky frontier.
Instead, this Kentucky native headed West to a raw territory in search of fortune and adventure and to find fame in his own right.
The territory was Idaho, where gold, silver and other riches in the earth drew hard-edged miners and large-scale mining operations like a giant magnet, and where labor unrest, battles over grazing lands and disputes with Native-Americans made for an untamed land.
Hunt was born Dec. 16, 1861, in Newport, the son of Thomas Benjamin Hunt, ...