Friday, November 13, 2009

  • Galen Gough, "The World's Miracle Strongman" by Greg Travis


    • Kentucky strongman Galen Gough had many unique feats to his credit but one factor differentiates him sharply from nearly all of his peers, this being that he is one of the few strongmen to ever have an entire book written about him and his exploits.

    Galen Gough, "The World's Miracle Strongman" by Greg Travis was self-published in 1996, and copies are very difficult to come by. At the time, Greg Travis was the editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Tribune-Courier.

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    Wednesday, August 26, 2009

  • Galen Gough


    • Billed as "The World's Miracle Strongman," Galen Gough from Howard''s Grove Kentucky certainly lived up to his title. Gough was terribly injured while serving in World War I, but built himself back to health and strength through physical training. His results were so dramatic that a career as a performing strongman soon followed.

    Gough performed feats of strength in carnivals, fairs and vaudeville houses all over the country. In addition to "traditional" strongman feats such as The Human Link, Nail Driving, and bar bending, Gough came up with many of his own including dangling from a rope tied to an airplane by his teeth, with a 50 pound weight in each hand, biting keys in half, juggling a 300-pound anvil!

    One of his many adventures was to perform feats of strength as publicity stunts for the Louisville, Kentucky- based Oertel Brewing Company which is the origin of the Barrel barbell pictured above.

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    Posted by John Wood @ Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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