My 1000 Hours sub-series is all about the pioneer era of pro wrestling — the era before Frank Gotch.
Gotch did not just appear out of a void and create pro wrestling for the masses in the early 1900s as he built on over 50 years of a thriving and, at times, hugely popular business. Much of what we as historians had to learn from until recent times were published books like Nat Fleischer’s From Milo to Londos and Fall Guys, but those books were written 30-to-50 years after the fact.
With the research tools we now have available, what is fact vs. fiction from source material like From Milo to Londos?
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