THOROUGHBRED NATION: Making America at the Racetrack 1791-1900
Follows the sport from its origins in colonial Virginia and South Carolina to its boom in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and then from its post-Civil War rebirth in New York City and Saratoga Springs to its opulent mythologization of the "Old South" at Louisville's Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby. Illus.
Format: Hardbound
Pages: 331
Publisher: LaSUP
Publishing status: Current
ISBN: 9780807182826
Item #: 9003894
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