Montana Horse Breeders Association records, 1908-1927

The Montana Horse Breeders Association (MHBA) was founded on September 30, 1908: "to promote the legitimate interest of the breeders by encouraging the breeding of the highest type of all classes of horses and the development of the same. To help to secure such legislation as will foster, protect, and encourage the horse breeding industry and suppress and prevent all frauds and vices pertaining thereto, and to disseminate information that will be valuable to stallion and mare owners." Affiliated with the Montana Stallion Registration Board (MSRB), created in 1909, the MHBA met several times prior to becoming inactive in 1917. The MSRB was abolished in 1943, and its duties transferred to the Livestock Sanitary Board. According to the Montana Secretary of State business registry, two other entities calling themselves by the same name as the MHBA were founded in later years; neither of these later organizations appear to have been the successors of the first named group.