We are washing the wagons for the parade coming up, Cheyenne Frontier Days. We have rodeo, parades, pancakes, breakfast. 10 days of entertainment westernstyle. This is number 16 . Yet. The carriages will be pulled into the parade. All of the parades that are scheduled for every year. They are worn down, which is where they are accumulating for the first pulldown, which will be on the first saturday. This is the staging area for the four parades that people see during frontier days. Saturday, tuesday, thursday, and saturday. And of course Cheyenne Frontier Days are staged by all volunteers, so it used to be quite a job getting everything ready. This is what we call our parade lots, and this is where we park the carriages that will be seen in each of the parades. There are 58 carriages that will be seen in the parade. Eight of them go down at the very first, and that carries the people, so we call that our the ip session. We have a group of ladies called the wheel. They were named after a group of men that worked for frontier days called the heels, so a w in front of it and we are the wheels. There was an idea of how to get people to the frontier days, so 19. 2, organized the parade for the anniversary of frontier days. It was so successful that by 1927, it became an annual event, and now we have the four parades during frontier days, so the wheels have grown and still stage them. Frontier days is really symbolic of the American West and for cheyenne anymore, of course our largest and strongest Economic Development project. It is a National Rodeo final in las vegas each year, they choose the outstanding rodeos, and Cheyenne Frontier Days has for the past i think six years, has been the prizewinning, largest outdoor rodeo in the world. So it has a fantastic reputation and a feeble come to see it, they will know why. All weekend American History tv is featuring cheyenne, wyoming. It was named for the indian tribe that dominated the area and was selected as the capital of the wyoming territory. Learn more about cheyenne wyoming. Welcome to the state capital. The capital was originally built in 18 86. It was selected to be the capital at the time there werent any other cities that were that large. There wari