Sports as cultural identity -- From Indigenous games to cities of champions : a basic chronology -- Fencing the fields : organizing principles and social order -- "The West has made fairly good headway" : core summer team sports -- "Love and hometown glory" : core winter team sports -- Sport and the single athlete : mavericks, knights, and knickerbockers -- "A vain shadow" : fitness, discipline, and social control -- "Red-blooded sports" and "masculine facsimiles" : gender and sexuality -- A "great slaughter on the field" : aggression, risk, and high performance -- "The rain upon our senses" : sport, the mass media, and marketing -- Getting on the map : sport raises the rafters
Summary
Patterns and layers of sport history emerge as almost-forgotten stories of Alberta's marginalized populations surface
