Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling
by C. Nathan Hatton
University of Manitoba Press, 2016
Paper: 978-0-88755-800-9 | eISBN: 978-0-88755-495-7 (epub) | eISBN: 978-0-88755-497-1 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification GV1198.15.M3H38 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.812097127
TOC
Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Before the Boom: Wrestling to 1896
Chapter 2. Manitoba's Pros: Professional Wrestling During the Western Boom, 1896-1914
Chapter 3. Wrestling with Ethnicity, 1896-1914
Chapter 4. The "Simon Pures": Amateur Wrestling to 1914
Chapter 5. Grappling with the Great War, 1914-18
Chapter 6. Professional Wrestling's "Golden Age," 1919-29
Chapter 7. Amateurism Expands: Amateur Wrestling in Manitoba, 1919-29
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1. Manitoba Amateur Wrestling Champions 1908-30
Appendix 2. Manitoba Islendingadagurinn Glima Champions Before 1930
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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