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In 1931, the small town of Sheridan, Wyoming, was so quiet you could “shoot a shotgun down Main Street and have no fear of injuring anyone.”
A group of local citizens wanted to do something about the situation and decided to put on a rodeo. They set their sights high and organized a first-class professional rodeo on a par with other professional rodeos like the Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The committee started out from ground zero and had a huge challenge. Not only did the rodeo committee have to organize the rodeo from scratch, but they had also to prepare the county fairgrounds facility that lacked the necessary amenities for a large professional rodeo.
They sold capital stock to finance the construction of additional seating, corrals, pens, and bucking chutes among other things. To publicize the event, E. W. Bill Gollings was commissioned to paint a picture for the first Sheridan-Wyo-Rodeo poster.
The entire community and downtown merchants helped support the efforts of the rodeo committee to ensure the success of the first Sheridan-Wyo-Rodeo.
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