The twins started climbing in their teens in the 1940s while in the Boy Scouts. Cody has won the champion's gold buckle twice. Cody Wright: Yeah. They're a family of 13 kids kept in line by their parents, Bill and Evelyn.Bill and his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren gather every year to round up, vaccinate, and brand their cattle.The hard work brings them together; it defines them on the ranch and in the arena. Evelyn Wright: We went to Gillette, Wyoming, to the National Finals. I was so-- I started crying. But don't-- don't think that I ain't trying to beat 'em. Like every sport in America, rodeo has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, but when we first brought you this story in November, there were nine members of the Wright family riding the circuit and they ranked among the best in the world. Bill Whitaker has not disclosed any information about his siblings. His career built out working as a correspondent for CBS network. (LAUGH) And you call that lucky?Statler Wright: I hurt my butt actually (LAUGH) a lot. But really that's kinda humbling and, it lights a fire. (LAUGH)And in a league of his own, Cody Wright, the one who started the family dynasty 20 years ago.Bill Whitaker: Tell me some of the injuries. Cody Wright: You've got a rein you hang on to.
"Bill Whitaker: So all of you've been injured? Bill passed away between 1970 and 1980, at age 90. Currently, he lives happily with his family.He has good earning at CBS network. I think you have to be a cowboy before you can be a rodeo cowboy.Rodeo might just be America's original pastime. And what do you say to that?Alexander James Wright: Fractured my skull.They're on the road around 250 days a year, clocking a 100,000 miles in what they call "rodeo motels. It's the cowboy Super Bowl and team Wright has made it every year for the last decade and a half. You know, there's ten of the best bronc riders right in-- in the world right here, We all get together and practice. His uncle is this guy, Spencer Wright, another world champion.Bill Whitaker: It's like one hell of a rocking horse.Evelyn Wright: --I had to organize 'em. Bill Whitaker: So surely there are easier ways to make a living.Spencer Wright: And I know that's why we all have been so successful at what we do.Jake Wright: We all show up to the rodeo wanting to win first, but, and, but we're gonna help each other do it too.In saddle bronc the goal is to hang on with style for eight seconds, to a horse specially bred to buck you off. After our story aired, the family added one more world championship to its collection – Stetson Wright won his first gold buckle for All-Around Cowboy at the National Finals Rodeo in December.Cody Wright: It can be the roughest ride in the world if you're outta time, or it can be the smoothest ride in the world.Jake Wright: He showed us that we could do it with a little hard work and a lotta try.Bill Whitaker: That's a huge family.That's Jake Wright, Cody's younger brother and one of his toughest competitors. And then I just pretty much forgot about everything else but what my dad's taught me.Spencer Wright: If he woulda never even pursued rodeo, I wonder what the rest of us would even be doin'. And I had like ten kids.
There is not much information about his married date, venue, and other relationships. He is the twin brother of Lou Whittaker, a mountain guide who is often mistakenly credited with that achievement. (LAUGH)Cody Wright: Dad's the first one to preach that you get out of it what you put into it. Bill Whitaker Parents He was born to his parents, Mary Whitaker and William Whitaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Whitaker needed his stint in WBTV, Charlotte, North Carolina Just before joining CBS. degree in the year 1973. (LAUGHTER) You did what?" You could walk away in the red.A fire, they say, to win those gold buckles, just like their dad, Cody. Bill Whitaker: Less than nothing.As awful as that may sound, the Wrights say the hardest part of the job is being away from home.There's Ryder Wright, the youngest world champion of all time, and at 21, currently sitting in first place.Bill Whitaker: Have you ever had a perfect ride?Bill Whitaker: So you could go through all this and go to a rodeo and walk away with nothing.Bill Whitaker: They sacrificed-- a lot for you to reach your dream.Statler Wright: Well, I was, like, super nervous until I got in there. You need to lift on it, 'cause that's what holds ya down in the saddle. However, information about siblings is currently unavailable. Bill is an American by nationality and belongs to African-American ethnicity. In a sport with plenty of wannabe cowboys, as you'll see and hear, the Wrights are the real deal - vestiges of the American frontier.