For your inner tourist, you can enjoy Big Boy Steam Engine as it evokes the time railroads conqured the West and opened up the country to settlers, prospectors, and adventurous people with the will to make their fortune on the frontier. Old Number 4004 is the largest steam engine in the world and though long retired from service it provides a monumental reminder of a day gone by.
Don’t forget you are in real cowboy country here and you can check out the Cheyenne Big Boots sculptures located around the city providing fine examples of local artists blending their skills with the real history and tradition of Cheyenne and Wyoming.
Cheyenne was built as a pioneer town and grew from humble origins as a staging and trading post on the road out West into a commercial hub. Life from that time was hard and very different from modern convenience and luxury we experience today. A very popular attraction is the Cheyenne Frontier Day’s rodeo which also works in conjunction with the Cheyenne Frontier Day’s Old West Museum & Store where you can see relics and exhibits from the olden golden days of the Wild west and then experience a real rodeo to round off the experience.
Located just out of Cheyenne is the Terry Bison Ranch which provides a practical reminder of how native Indians and the first explorers and settlers made their living and fed themselves.You can have a great day with plenty to see, but expect to be tired at the end of the day. Get the best of outdoor cooking, real life cowboys and demonstrations, saloon bar and horseback riding like it was in the old days.
A visit to Cheyenne would not be complete without a Wild West gunfight - so head over to the Cheyenne Gunslingers who stage reenactments for thousands of vistors each year.The Cheyenne Gunslingers hold their events in the downtown Old Town Square where the streets ring with the sound of six-guns and rifle fire as the Good Guys battle it out with the Black Hats.You can even participate sometimes, but you'd better dress the part!
Cheyenne is a historic town and particularly the Old District in the Downtown area has a lot of old buildings that need to be seen using the appropriate mode of transport – the horse drawn carriage. You can find one of many carriages operated by the Horse Drawn Carriage Rides Company operating around the downtown area and the charges are modest but you get to see Cheyenne how it was meant to be seen, from an open carriage and at a pace you can take in everything the city has to offer.