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. 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 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 so a wed the heels, 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 and formerican west cheyenne anymore, of course our largest and strongest Economic Development project. Inis a National Rodeo final 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. Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring cheyenne, wyoming. Cspans cities tour team recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. Learn more about cheyenne and other stops on cspans cities localcontent. N. Org youre watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. On theay night communicators, former federal Communications Commissioners before merger proposals the sec. You have these Huge Companies who are not only in control of , theistribution of content news and information infrastructure that we as a democracy rely upon to govern ourselves. Eyed option of smartphones is faster in minority communities than it is in the affluent white communities, and that is fantastic news for america. Youre seeing the developing world id up such technologies very rapidly. Fantastic news for improving the human condition. For allowing people to have the benefit of new information. It will change their political c expectations. Next, author kevin levin talks about the role of u. S. Troops in the battle of the crater. As to placed july 30, 1864 hard of the union army seizure heaters burn. Peters heard National Battlefield organized this event. Interpretation with petersburg National Battlefield. For those of you who have been with us for the last coupl