History
Photo from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bucking_bronco._Cheyenne_Frontier_Days_cph.3b03106.jpg Photo from http://64.19.142.12/www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/frontierdays1910.jpg The Cheyenne Frontier Days (CFD), inarguably the largest outdoor rodeo in the world, started on September 23, 1897. Cheyenne, the capital of the state of Wyoming, has been the home of the American “wild west”, where horse-riding cowboys tended herds of cattle in the area. Thus, the event first took place when those cowboys started organizing casual rodeo competitions – a sport that tests the skills of cowboys in herding cattle such as bulls, against one another as they go back to their ranches. The first organizers of the event first set it ...
