✍ Scribed by Heath McCoy
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Established in the 1940s by the legendary Stu Hart, Stampede Wrestling was a founding wrestling company that was highly influential. This dramatic account follows Stampede’s blood-on-the-mat saga of more than 50 years, from its grassroots beginnings in Calgary to its rise and bitter fall. Despite hosting some of the biggest names in the sport and developing many modern day wrestling staples, such as ladder matches, the emergence in the 1980s of the wildly popular WWE ultimately doomed the Stampede league to closure. The Hart family crumbled along with the league, with son Owen dying in the ring and other members torn apart by begrudging feuds and internal strife. Full of violence, sex, and drugs, this is a gripping tale of the birth of professional wrestling.
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication
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Contents
......Page 9
Acknowledgments ix......Page 11
Introduction
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1 Mutiny and the Sinking of Stampede Wrestling
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2 Superman of the Prairies: Young Stu Hart
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3 Raising Harts: The Early Years
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4 The Dungeon
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5 Pirates on the Prairies
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6 TV, Slick Sammy, and a Jet Plane
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7 Uncle Ed and the Wildcats
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8 Butchers, Stompers, and Cheats
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9 Overkill
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10 The Age of Dynamite
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11 Married to the Hart Mafia
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12 Let the Good Times Roll
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13 A Pop Culture Stampede
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14 Bad News Rising
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15 Back in the Saddle
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16 The Death of Stampede Wrestling
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17 Afterburn
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18 The Death of Owen
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19 Harts Torn Apart
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20 Harts Go On
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21 2007: The Third Generation and Wrestling’s Darkest Day
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Endnotes
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Photograph Sources
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