The Pennsylvania County Fair: A Snapshot of America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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This paper explores the controversial popularity of horse races at Pennsylvania
agricultural fairs at the turn of the twentieth century. While the excitement of horse races and the
gambling that surrounded them attracted large crowds to fairs, agriculturists were angered by their detraction from agricultural exhibits and moralists mortified by the gambling.