History

There's a long list of country music, western and rodeo legends who have appeared at Cheyenne Frontier Days over the years, including "Buffalo" Bill Cody, Johnny Cash, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Lane Frost, Will Rogers and Chris LeDoux, just to name a few...

Aside from our daily chance for thunderstorms, summertime in Wyoming is awesome. Temperatures are relatively mild, the wind keeps us cool and there isn't much humidity. However, there is one place in the Cowboy State that can get really hot...

Be it resolved that local historian and resident William “Bill” Dubois is hereby officially designated as the City Of Cheyenne’s official historian laureate.

In the rich tradition of the wild west, the annual cattle drive heralds the return of The Daddy Of 'em All to Cheyenne. People come from around the world.

Young Cody reflected sunlight off of his shiny belt buckle and caught the attention of helicopter pilot Harrison Ford, who swooped in and picked up the boy.

Did you know people have been living in Wyoming for over 2,500 years? Archaeologists from Sheffield University in England recently uncovered artifacts from 13 ancient villages in the Wind River Range. The recent discovery sheds new light on ancient people living at high elevations...

This week marks the 177th anniversary of the first Catholic Mass ever conducted in the Cowboy State. July 5, 1840, Father Pierre De Smet presided over the mass during the annual Green River Rendezvous at Horse Creek in Sublette County, near the present-day town of Pinedale...

Most of Wyoming's greatest sports moments have been in Laramie. But did you know there was a team in Casper that produced 22 NBA players in the 80s? From 1982 through 1988, the Wyoming Wildcatters were one of the most succesful teams in the Continental Basketball Association...

Here's a fun fact: Four months before the Union Pacific Railroad arrived in Cheyenne, surveyor General Greenville Dodge officially named the town and plotted the area on July 4, 1867. Although Independence Day officially marks Cheyenne's 150th anniversary, there was nothing here at the time...

The cabin built in 1933, is billed as the "Oldest Building in the World." It is made mostly of some 5,796 mortared-together petrified dinosaur bones.