Author Talk: Catherine Moser on When Montana Outraced the East: The Reign of Western Thoroughbreds, 1886-1900

In Gilded-Age Montana, three former frontiersmen turned from speculation in minerals to speculation in Thoroughbred horses. The rest is horse racing history...or would be if the story had ever been written. When Montana Outraced the East: The Reign of Western Thoroughbreds, 1886-1900 retrieves the largely forgotten late nineteenth-century golden age of the Montana thoroughbred industry, when Montana horses won some of the biggest prizes in American horse racing, confounding national sportswriters and threatening to reshape the balance of power within America’s oldest sport.
This book introduces readers to larger-than-life characters like silver baron Noah Armstrong, pioneer banker Samuel Larabie, and Copper King Marcus Daly, each pursuing his passion for horses by studying pedigrees, importing blue-blooded stock, and turning them loose on native grasses under Montana's big sky.