Frontier Days
Pioneer heritage festival
Frontier Days is a celebration of American Western heritage, typically featuring rodeos, parades, and cowboy culture.
The most famous is Cheyenne Frontier Days, held annually in Wyoming since 1897, billed as the world's largest outdoor rodeo.
Similar events occur throughout the American West: The whole town turns out for Frontier Days.
- rodeoCowboy skills competition
- barrel racingMounted cloverleaf sprint
- bronc ridingRodeo bucking horse event
- log cabinsDwellings of stacked timber
- cowboysRanch hands tending herds
wild west · old west · exploration · parade · blacksmithing · outlaws · quilting · cowboy poetry · butter churning · westward expansion · pioneer spirit · settlement · historical reenactments · folklore heroes · carnival games · rugged individualism · sheriffs · fur trade