A Utah family that has produced several generations of rodeo champions is chronicled in a new book called ¡±The Last Cowboys.¡±

The Wrights family book written by New York Times¡¯ Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch was released May 15. Branch spent more than three years with the Wrights to put it together Wholesale Hayden Hurst Jersey , The Spectrum reported .

¡±They¡¯re like the Mannings of rodeo,¡± Branch said. ¡±As long as the Mannings had five or six more quarterbacks in the NFL. The Mannings wish they were the Wrights of the NFL, probably.¡±

The Wrights, from the southern Utah town of Milford, have produced generation after generation of rodeo champions. But the book isn¡¯t just about winning saddle bronc titles. It¡¯s about a family¡¯s challenge adapting to a changing American West as the world grows smaller.

It¡¯s about a parcel of land on Smith Mesa and whether the Wrights can, or even should, remain there. It¡¯s about the Old West becoming new.

¡±I wanted to be able to highlight the broader picture,¡± Branch said. ¡±The drought, the federal land use, the organization of the West. . Cities and small towns are dying Youth Anthony Miller Jersey , but some are booming, and that brings its own kind of problems.¡±

Branch said he rarely begins to write a story without knowing the end, but he knew ¡±The Last Cowboys¡± would be an exception.

¡±Life kind of unspools, and this family has been unspooling for 150 years around here and continues to unspool, to use that metaphor,¡± Branch said. ¡±I think it¡¯s OK that the book sort of leaves you a little bit with an `I wonder what happens next.¡±¡¯

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Information from: The Spectrum, Donald Crisman has more than a half-century of Super Bowl memories behind him, from taking a 24-hour train ride to Super Bowl II to seeing his beloved New England Patriots win in overtime last year.

But he says the 52nd Super Bowl featuring the Philadelphia Eagles and the Patriots on Sunday just might be his final big game.

The 81-year-old resident of Kennebunk, Maine, is a member of the ever-shrinking ¡±Never Miss a Super Bowl Club¡± that¡¯s attended every season finale since its inception in 1967. He has bought his own ticket every year except one.

Crisman was featured in a 2010 Visa commercial along with three friends who had attended every Super Bowl. He is attending this game with a heavy heart because friend Larry Jacobson of San Francisco died last fall. Crisman said attending the game without Larry would be different Josey Jewell Color Rush Jersey , and he might not have gone if the Patriots weren¡¯t in it.

He shared some of his favorite memories with The Associated Press.

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LAST TIME IN MINNEAPOLIS

Crisman prefers the warmer venues for the Super Bowl. But he has fond memories of the last Super Bowl in Minneapolis ¨C in 1992 at the now-gone Metrodome.

He has a hat from the game bearing the Super Bowl XXVI logo that was signed by Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, quarterback Mark Rypien and wide receiver Gary Clark. He is bringing it with him to this year¡¯s game at U.S. Bank Stadium, built on the site of the old Metrodome, to ¡±show and tell it.¡±

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SUPER BOWL THAT ALMOST WASN¡¯T

Crisman¡¯s trip to the second Super Bowl in 1968 was an odyssey. He had made arrangements to take a private plane to the game in Miami but an ice storm made it impossible to fly.

Crisman was undaunted and managed to find a train that took 24 hours to get to Miami. ¡±I can¡¯t believe how many times that train stopped,¡± he said. ¡±It was agonizing, to say the least.¡±

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FAVORITE VENUES

The Miami area, which will set a record by hosting its 11th Super Bowl in 2020, is Crisman¡¯s favorite place to see the game. He¡¯s also a fan of San Diego, which has hosted three times.

Crisman is ¡±not a fan of these winter bowls,¡± occasionally held at indoor stadiums in Indianapolis Dale Murphy Jersey , Detroit and Minneapolis. But when asked about his worst experience at a Super Bowl venue, he cannot think of one.

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TOP PLAYS

The Rhode Island native has been a Patriots fan since the team¡¯s inception in 1960, so his favorite Super Bowl play of all time is fittingly James White¡¯s overtime, game-winning touchdown last year. Previously, he was the subject of endless teasing because his favorite plays were a pair of field goals.

Specifically, field goals that won Super Bowls for the Patriots in 2002 and 2004.

¡±I¡¯ve been laughed at and kind of ridiculed. `You can¡¯t have a field goal be your favorite play,¡±¡¯ he said. ¡±Well, I do.¡±

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WILL HE KEEP GOING?

Crisman¡¯s crew at the Super Bowl included Jacobson and Pittsburgh Steelers fan Tom Henschel and Green Bay Packers fan Bob Cook, who also had attended every game. But the group has dwindled to just him and Henschel after the death of Jacobson last year and Cook, who died in 2011. He¡¯s welcoming Jacobson¡¯s daughter Heather on Sunday and expects to shed a few tears when she sits in what would have been her dad¡¯s seat.

His son Devin Hester Bears Jersey , Don Jr., called his dad ¡±the most consistent force in football.¡± He said it will be different when his father no longer goes to the big game. After 51 Super Bowls and counting, the elder Crisman said that day might be coming soon.

¡±I¡¯m thinking about it,¡± he said. ¡±But this year, I¡¯m taking the Patriots.¡±

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