He put rodeo on the back burner until he ran into a friend who was riding saddle bronc horses. He then rode bulls until he took a three-year break to focus on college and his teaching career. Jeff started riding steers when he was around 8 or 9. Now at 87, Wilson cheers for his grandson Shiloh on the rodeo circuit. He was a bareback champ in 1978 and inducted into the Texas Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2005. Stanley Wilson competes on “Quicksand” in bareback bronc riding at the Houston Rodeo in 1966. Stanley Wilson competed in rodeos for about 22 years. The passion for rodeoing is three generations in the making for the Wilson family. He’s so young, he’s just thrilled to death with it.”Ĭollision and refinishing teacher Jeff Wilson began training Shiloh for rodeos when Shiloh was 3. “I’m leaving a legacy behind me,” Shiloh’s 87-year-old grandfather Stanley Wilson said. It’s a smile Shiloh’s dad and grandfather both flashed during their championship rodeo careers. A smile that can be donned only by a grandson of a Texas rodeo Hall of Famer.
It is a smile of a third-generation cowboy. Shiloh stayed on his second horse long enough to be taken off of it by the “pickup man.” His smile, his dad said, was priceless. Now get on this horse and ride this horse.”
A moment before the 7-year-old got on his second horse, his dad thumped him on the chest. The nerves were intense as Shiloh Wilson tried to regroup after being bucked off his first horse in the biggest rodeo competition of his short career.
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