Marty Wood

Martin Roy Wood (June 4, 1933 – August 10, 2019) was a rodeo cowboy from Bowness, Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada. The ProRodeo Hall of Fame inducted Wood in 1991. He was also inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1994. Wood died on August 10, 2019, in Pendleton, Oregon.

Early life Marty was born June 4, 1933, in Carstairs, Alberta, Canada, 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. However, Wood was first a fan of baseball. Wood was serious about the sport until an ankle injury sidelined him from a career. The injury did not effect his rodeo abilities. and won the Calgary Stampede a total of five times, in 1954, 1957, 1961, 1964, and 1965. He also won at Cheyenne Frontier Days; Madison Square Garden, New York City; San Francisco Cow Palace, California; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston, Texas; Salinas, California; Boston Garden, Massachusetts; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, rodeos. He last lived in Pendleton, Oregon.

Death and legacy Wood died in Pendleton, Oregon, on August 10, 2019, from cancer. He was 86 years old.

Honors 2008 Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum 2006 Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame 1994 Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame 1994 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame 1991 ProRodeo Hall of Fame