The Corbett Brothers, Logan, 25, and Clayton, 20, are cowboys from Murray, Ky.
They have been riding together for most of their life and have gone to the same college, Murray State University, and even pursued the same career and animal science degree.
It all started with their dad.
“Our dad rode bulls and bucking horses when he was our age,” Logan said. “So as we grew up, he gave [that] up, but he got into team roping, and we would travel with him growing up.”
As they got older, the brothers called competing in rodeos at the high school and collegiate levels “the next natural step.”
“We always had horses growing up, just kind of a family thing,” Logan said.
And there isn’t any other lifestyle they could ask for, he said.
“Man, it is the best lifestyle there is in my opinion, just seeing the different parts of country.” Logan said. “It’s just such a blessing to do what you love.”
Logan’s favorite journey through America with rodeo was South Dakota.
“The Black Hills in South Dakota [are] absolutely beautiful,” he said. “We were driving through it when the sun was coming up, getting to experience God’s creation firsthand is just amazing.”
However, it’s the small towns for Clayton.
“Last weekend, we were out in Kellettville, Pa. Small, little place with nothing around for 30 miles,” Clayton said. “Then all of a sudden, you were surrounded by a little community with a bar, a diner and a dude ranch where people pull campers with their front porches built on them.”
However, their favorite memory together wasn’t a placement or an award. It was the chance to be together last year in Monroe, Wis.
“They did an intro where they brought all the cowboys out and they did it with one of the bucking horses, who was a mama, and they brought its baby,” Logan said. “And they just talked about family tradition. Then my brother and I walked out there. Just being able to go out there and spend time with your family, doing what you love.”
For Clayton, it was the chance to see his brother after an entire summer separated.
“Logan was down in Tampa all summer, but I was with some of my other buddies,” Clayton said. “I look forward to being with [him] year-round. I feel I feed off him, and I ride better whenever he is there.”
“Clay’s my little brother and being there to make sure that he gets taken care of [is] important,” Logan said. “He doesn’t need it. … But just to be able to be at the same rodeo together is nice.”
Being around each other is only half of it, Logan added.
“I can say what I want to,” he said. “What is he going to do, leave? No, he can’t. I can piss him off if I want to.”
Alan Hovorka is a writer for BSU Journalism at the Fair, a Ball State University immersive-learning project placing 25 student journalists at the heart of the Midway to tell the weird and wonderful stories of the 2014 Indiana State Fair.
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