The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will not be performing during this year’s Cheyenne Frontier Days due to safety concerns. Because the Cheyenne airport will be under construction yet again, the Thunderbirds said lack of a working emergency runway caused them to cancel.
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Trent Weitzel, the owner of Laramie’s Weitzel’s Wings (Double Dubs) and Josh Allen’s favorite wing spot, is going to attempt to break a world record for selling the most chicken wings in 24 hours.
Although Cheyenne Frontier Days’ night show and rodeo attendance dipped slightly this year, there was no concern to be had from the organization’s CEO the day after the “Daddy of ’em All” wrapped.
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Cheyenne Frontier Days on Saturday honored the Lakewood Police Officer who stopped a mass shooter in Colorado last December despite being shot herself. She is credited with saving countless lives.
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The unofficial kick-off to Cheyenne Frontier Days will look a little different on Sunday, when instead of hundreds of cows taking to the streets of Cheyenne, it will be about 50 horses.
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With lodging almost impossible for next month’s Cheyenne Frontier Days, some residents are renting out their homes for $10,000 for the week. Another homeowner has listed his house for $1,800 per night.
Officials at Cheyenne Frontier Days on Thursday announced the concert lineup for this year’s 10-day festival. Brooks & Dunn, Jason Aldean, and Dierks Bentley are just three of the headliners.
Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins celebrated the news on Tuesday that Cheyenne Frontier Days helped generate more than $40 million in economic activity in Cheyenne and Laramie County in 2021.
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The deaths of eight people at a concert in Houston over the weekend has Cheyenne Frontier Days officials looking at ways to improve their own security at the rodeo’s night shows.
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Wyoming residents who got to see Garth Brooks are fortunate Cheyenne Frontier Days is held in July as the country superstar just canceled the rest of his tour dates due to COVID concerns.
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More than 20,000 people gave Natrona County Deputy Sheriff Dexter Bryant a standing ovation on Saturday as Cheyenne Frontier Days paused the rodeo in order to salute his heroism.
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Cheyenne Frontier Days and Cowboy Skill Games of Wyoming on Monday honored two Wyoming airmen from F.E. Warren Air Force Base whose quick actions led to the rescue of a kidnapped child from an armed fugitive.
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Attendance at Cheyenne Frontier Days events this year increased by almost 23% over the last year the rodeo was held, the organization reported on Sunday.
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Thousands have gathered in downtown Cheyenne this week to partake in the famous Cheyenne Frontier Days pancake breakfasts.
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In keeping with Cowboy State Daily’s tradition of educating its readers to fine culinary opportunities, here is a look at some of the more unique fare available at the 2021 Cheyenne Fronter Days Rodeo as sampled by Ellen Fike.
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Chris LeDoux is being forever memorialized at the “Daddy Of ‘Em All” this year with a bronze statue celebrating his career placed at Frontier Park in Cheyenne.
Cheyenne’s airport will not be open in time for the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo because the airport will not be able to complete a runway construction project due to a cement shortage.
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Blake Shelton’s concert no longer had tickets available as of Monday, following in the steps of fellow CFD headliner Garth Brooks, whose concert sold out in under an hour when tickets went on sale last month.
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The Laramie County Health Dept is going to raffle off a pair of Cheyenne Frontier Days night show tickets as a way to encourage vaccinations.
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If you were hoping to be one of the lucky people to get a ticket for Garth Brooks’ concert at Cheyenne Frontier Days in 2021, unless you acted within seconds of the time they went on sale, you’re out of luck.
Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton will be just two of the headliners for this year’s Cheyenne Frontier Days’ night shows.
Cheyenne Frontier Days officials on Wednesday that the 10-day celebration will return this year at full capacity.
A number of organizations in Cheyenne are coming together to help those in Colorado who have been displaced due to the wildfires.
The cloudy skies of my personal COVID-saturated 2020 parted this week as Cheyenne Frontier Days officials announced the “Frontier Fun Food Festival.”
The country singer said he can’t wait to play at the 125th anniversary of Cheyenne Frontier Days.
Even though Cheyenne hotels and campgrounds rely on the Frontier Days Rodeo for a large part of their annual income, most are allowing people to cancel or change their reservations in the face of the event’s cancellation.
What if there was a way to leverage an iconic brand and pull the international rodeo community up by its collective bootstraps and saddle up for something different?
If the biggest outdoor rodeo in the world were to be canceled, it would be in conjunction with city, county and state orders. It’s going to take a lot to bring the “Daddy of ’em All” down.
Gordon said he would allow the bill to become law, but wants the Legislature to avoid trying to solve local problems in the future.
City officials have said that unless Frontier Days agrees to cover the cost of the security, estimated at $100,000 to $200,000 per year, the permit that allows the sale of beer at the rodeo grounds will be withheld.
Friends and admirers of the late bull rider Lane Frost shared their memories this week of Frost’s death in the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo arena 30 years ago.
You can tell it’s Cheyenne Frontier Days because the heat has finally kicked up to the 90s in Cheyenne. When the July heat starts cooking, Cheyenne Frontier Days gets into gear. Part of the magic can be witnessed by locals and tourists who can step in the arena mud and dirt as part of the Behind the Chutes tour.
The U.S. Air Force precision flying team the Thunderbirds took to the skies over Cheyenne for the 66th time on Wednesday for its annual demonstration of high-speed formation flying.
A cowboy is given a second chance to ride a bull or horse, called a reride, on a new animal if his first ride was affected by equipment failure or if the livestock did not buck sufficiently.
Just to give you an idea of the high points, Cowboy State Daily’s Jim Angell visited the midway to try 10 different carnival foods and rank them according to his preference. Take a look at his gastronomical journey and watch to the end to see his top 10 choices.
Pickup men are two cowboys on horseback who help roughstock riders dismount after their ride and then escort the bull or horse to the exit gate.
Roughstock is the term used to refer to the events in which cowboys ride bulls or horses (saddle bronc riding or bareback bronc riding).
A Go-Round is essentially what it sounds like: A round of competition at a rodeo.
The Fort Carson Mounted Colorguard – stationed just outside Colorado Springs, Colorado – is at Cheyenne Frontier Days this week performing reenactments of stage coach robberies and showcasing the important role of the calvary in the establishment of the American West.
Cowboy State Daily’s Jim Angell — who confesses he looks like an idiot in a cowboy hat — visited the experts at The Wrangler in Cheyenne the other day to get some tips on how to look good in this unique bit of headgear.
Slack refers to rodeo events scheduled at times other than the main rodeo because there is not enough time to squeeze everything into the main rodeo schedule.
Tourism officials in Cheyenne are predicting that the city’s annual Frontier Days celebration will bring at least as many people to Cheyenne as showed up for the 2018 event.
It’s one thing to manage the herds of tourists that descend on Cheyenne for Frontier Days, but quite another to manage the herds of cattle that are the stars of the world’s largest outdoor rodeo.
The Cheyenne Frontier Days Museum houses 163 regional examples of horse drawn vehicles — the largest and most diverse Western carriage collection in the world.
Friends of a well known Cheyenne photographer who died in April remembered him as someone who was always willing to help others.
