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5 unusual facts about Cheyenne Frontier Days


Bonnie McCarroll

In 1922, she won two cowgirl bronc riding championships at both Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the first rodeo hosted at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Cheyenne Frontier Days

This event, which attracts considerable attention, is based on the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

The CFD features nightly concerts by popular music and comedy acts, a midway, a fair with rides, games, and food vendors, wild west shows featuring Western riding, an Indian village, and a large PRCA/PBR nationally sanctioned rodeo.

Doole, Texas

For nearly a half-century he was a chute director at the Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Frontier Days

Cheyenne Frontier Days, an annual 10 day-long cultural festival in Cheyenne, Wyoming


Excursion train

Since 1908 an excursion train has carried travelers between Denver, Colorado's Union Station and the Cheyenne Depot Museum to attend the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo event.


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