Frontier Days and the High Plains Capital — Wyoming's capital holds the world's largest outdoor rodeo, the original Union Pacific transcontinental railroad depot, and an elevation of 6,062 feet that made it the highest state capital in the continental US
Cheyenne is the capital and largest city of Wyoming — a small city of 65,000 on the high plains at the base of the Laramie Range, founded in 1867 as a construction camp for the Union Pacific transcontinental railroad. The city grew overnight into a major cattle-shipping and railroad hub, earning the nickname 'Magic City of the Plains.' Cheyenne Frontier Days (last full week of July) is the world's largest outdoor rodeo and western heritage festival — 10 days of professional rodeo, PRCA competitions, a free outdoor country music concert series, a military air show, and a western parade that dr…
Cheyenne was established in July 1867 by Union Pacific Railroad workers laying the transcontinental line westward. Within months it had 4,000 residents and was described by journalists as the 'Magic City of the Plains.' It became Wyoming Territory's capital in 1869 — the same year Wyoming became the first US territory to grant women the right to vote. The cattle boom of the 1870s–80s made Cheyenne briefly one of the wealthiest cities per capita in the US, when cattle barons from the Cheyenne Club controlled vast ranching empires across Wyoming. The economic crash of 1886–87 (the 'Big Die-Up'…