The Iroquois Hunt: A Bluegrass Foxhunting Tradition

Founded near Lexington, Kentucky, in 1880—and refounded in 1926—the Iroquois Hunt Club is a small club at the heart of the Bluegrass. Its history, however, is populated by vivid characters with strong links to some of America's most influential figures and most important movements of the last 120 years. Members participated in the Black Hills Gold Rush of the 1870s, the fight for women's right to vote in the early 1900s, Theodore Roosevelt's creation of national parks and the building of th...