A Utah family of saddle bronc riders will be profiled on Sunday’s edition of “60 Minutes" (6 p.m., KUTV-Channel 2).
The segment focuses on the Wrights, who the CBS newsmagazine calls “a cowboy clan holding on to a rein and a way of life.” Family members, who have called the Zion Wright Family Ranch in Virgin home for six generations, have “worked to become a dominant force in rodeo.”
CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker traveled to southern Utah and to Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo for the report. And he expresses astonishment that the Wrights not only compete in saddle bronc riding — in which which riders try to hold on with one hand to a horse specially bred to buck them off — but that they’ve had so much success.