Marty Wood

Martin Roy (Marty) Wood (Born June 4, 1933) is a rodeo cowboy from Bowness, Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada. The ProRodeo Hall of Fame inducted Wood in 1991.

Marty was born June 4, 1933[1] in Carstairs, Alberta, to Dorothy and Harry Wood. His great grandfather was Henry Wise Wood, the founding president of the United Farmers of Alberta, who had settled in Carstairs in 1905. Marty's family moved to Bowness, then a small hamlet just outside Calgary, in 1940 or 1941, and he attended school there. His parents built a house and opened the Wood's Riding Academy, where Marty learned to break, ride and show horses. He took up rodeo in the early 1950s and soon specialized in Saddle broncs. He won his first professional rodeo championship in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1953.[2]

During the fifties and sixties, Wood was Canadian Champion Saddle Bronc Rider in 1954, 1955 and 1963, World Champion in 1958, 1964 and 1966,[3] and won the Calgary Stampede a total of five times, in 1954, 1957, 1961, 1964 and 1965. He also won at the Cheyenne, Madison Square Garden, San Francisco Cow Palace, Fort Worth, Houston, Salinas, Boston Garden, and Oklahoma City rodeos.

Wood was married to Jean Routh in the 1950s and the couple had one son, Chip. The couple divorced in the late 1960s. During his career, Wood suffered many injuries, including seven broken legs, fractures of both feet and ankles, broken ribs and a broken collarbone. Because of the cumulative effect of his injuries, he retired in 1974, going on to train American Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds for racing and jumping.[4] He now lives in Pendleton, Oregon.

Honors

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Marty Wood - Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame". Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ Bowness Our Village in the Valley, Bowness Historical Society, 2005, pp. 273-4. ISBN 1-55383-094-6
  3. ↑ "PRCA World Champions (Historical)". prorodeo.com. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Hypokritical.com". www.hypokritical.com. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ Bowness Historical Society (2005). "Bowness Our Village in the Valley". National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Bowness Historical Society. pp. 274. ISBN 1-55383-094-6. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductees - National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum". National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Marty Wood | Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame". erhof.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  8. ↑ "Canadian Professional Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductees". www.canadianprorodeohalloffame.com. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Wood, Marty - Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum". ashfm.ca. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
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