WHEN THE JONES KIDS OF NEPHI-THE ONLY THING THAT WAS CONSTANT ON OUR MINDS WAS THE JULY EVENT OF THE GREATEST RODEO IN AMERICA. WE KNEW THEY HAD BIG TIME RODEO'S AT THE COW PALACE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND AT YANKEE STADIUM, BUT NOT AS GOOD AS IN RURAL NEPHI, UTAH. EVERY MORNING, I HAVE MY COFFEE AND KEEP TRACK OF THE GREAT WRIGHT BOYS OF BEAVER COUNTY, AS THEY ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO JUAB COUNTY TO CLAIM THEM. YEARS AGO, IT WAS THE THREE FULLMER BROTHERS OF WEST JORDAN, WITH GENE FULLMER BEING THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD IN MIDDLE WEIGHT, AND I BECAME GREAT FRIENDS WITH HIM AND DROVE HIM TO OGDEN TO SPEAK AT A LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE. GENE PUT ON SOME WEIGHT AND HIS NOSE WAS AS FLAT AS A WALL, BUT STILL WAS TOUGH AS NAILS TILL HE DEPARTED WHEN HIT DEADLY WITH DEMENTIA. NOW WE GET TO FOLLOW SEVERAL UTAH COWBOYS WHO ARE NOW KICKIING THE BUTTS OF THE TEXAS BOYS. THE RODEO SEASON IS SLOW RIGHT NOW, AS THEY ARE AT THE RANCH IN MILFORD HELPING THEIR SISTERS WITH THE RANCH WORK AS THE GALS KNOW HOW TO BRAND AND DOCTOR THE CATTLE BETTER THAN THE BOYS. RIGHT NOW STETSON WRIGHT IS THE ALL ROUND CHAMPION IN LEAD AND FIRST PLACE AS THE SADDLE BRONC, BUT BROTHER RUSTY WRIGHT IS IN SECOND IN THE WORLD AND THEY ARE BOTH TOUGH, BUT HELP EACH OTHER AS WELL AS THE OTHER WRIGHT BOYS OF RYDER, STATLER; SPENCER; JESSE,JAKE AND THEIR TEACHER CODY AND . THEIR ARE MANY OTHER UTAH BOYS FIGHTING TO STAY IN THE TOP FIFTEEN THAT GO ON TO VEGAS FOR THE FINALS, WITH JOSH FROST TAKING FIRST PLACE IN BULL RIDING IN TEXAS. AND NOW ADAYS, THE VEGAS STRIP FANS GOT USED TO THE JONES BOYS WEARING THEIR COWBOY HATS AND LIKE IT! WHEN THE BLACKHAWK ENCAMPMENT SLOWED DOWN IN 1951, THAT WAS WHEN DR. P. L JONES WAS THE MAYOR AND HE GRAPPED OTHER GUYS TO PUT THE UTE STANPEDE TOGETHER, BUT WE DON'T GET MANY OF THE AMERICAN NATIVES TO JOIN US AS THEY ARE DECLINING. FIRST RODEO COMMITTE WERE COPS OF E.C. SHERWOOD; JACK BROUGH, THEN RAY JACKSON; A JUDGE AND A DOCTOR, SO THEY KNEW HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE "VOLUNTEER". FLORENCE CHAPMAN WAS THE QUEEN OF BOTH THE BLACKHAWK ENCAMPMENT AND THE UTE STAMPEDE AND DR. J.C. SORENSON BROUGHT IN THE STOCK UNTIL OUR GREAT HERO-COTTON ROSSER TOOK OVER AND WE STILL LOVE HIM AND ANNOUNCER CHUCK PARKINSON. THEY NOW GET TO RIDE "SPIRITUAL STEEDS". BUT FOR NOW LONG LIVE ALL THE GREAT COWBOYS OF UTAH AND IT IS NOW A FOUR DAY EVENT. I FLUNKED MATH AT JUAB HIGH, BUT IF YOU ADD UP WHAT THE WRIGHT BROTHERS HAVE EARNED SO FAR THIS SEASON, THEY HAVE GOT ABOUT A HALF MILLION DOLLARS SO FAR, AND IT AINT EVEN SUMMER TIME, BUT THEIR GREAT WIVES CAN HOLD THEIR MONEY TO PUT UP HAY FOR THE CATTLE. FIRST PHOTO IS OF COTTON ROSSER THEN SOME OF THE RIGHT WRIGHTS. OTHER UTAH COWBOYS ARE MASON CLEMENTS; HAYES WEIGHT; DEAN THOMPS0N (injured);COOPER BENNETT; COOPER JAMES; TYLER BINGHAM; CASH ROBB AND SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE WRIGHTS TEACHERS-CODY AND BILL WRIGHT AND THEIR MEDICAL DIRECTOR-EVELYN (MOM TOO)-AND SHAREE, MOM OF RUSTY, RYDER, STETSON AND STATLER, WHO JUST MAY GET SO CONFUSED, SHE JUST MAY SAY "HEY YOU" LIKE MY FOLKS DID WITH FOUR SONS ABOUT 10 MONTHS APART! THEN CAME JAYNETTE, WHO COULD OUTRIDE A HORSE OR HARLEY ANY DAY BETTER THAN HER BROTHERS, 
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