Cowboy life in Cody is not a Hollywood jesture. This is as real as it gets. Young men & women come from all over to train on live animals every night & gain PRCA points in competition. Cowboys & girls travel hundreds of miles from home, live in tents or less outback the rodeo grounds, and the people of Cody Wyoming support them one hundred precent. Why because here it is our tradition and we are proud to be cowboy & one of the only places in America that still offer nightly rodeos for cowboys & cowgirls to still train for there sport professionally.

You wanna be a Cowboy baby!
Buck up & howdy do, this is real Cowboy Country in Cody.

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Who is a Cowboy in today in 2006?

cow·boy Pronunciation  (kouboi) noun
1.) A hired man, especially in the western United States, who tends cattle and performs many of his duties on horseback. Also called cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher, also called regionally buckaroo, vaquero, waddy2. See Regional Note at vaquero.
2.) An adventurous hero.
3.) Slang. A reckless person, such as a driver, pilot, or manager, who ignores potential risks.

This is why we do what we do in the Cowboy State of Wyoming!

Who is the First American Cowboy?

In the days of the ranchos, the annual roundup and branding of cattle was always an occasion for a display of horsemanship and roping. When the principal chores of the event called a rodeo (from the Spanish word rodear meaning "to surround" pronounced "ro-day-oh") were completed, there was usually an exhibition and contest of skills by the cowboys, or "vaqueros."

The skills displayed had a rich history tracing back to the great horsemanship traditions of the Spanish conquistadores.

During the late 1700s and early 1800s, Spain held much of the land that is now the American West. When the missions were established, their secular activities included raising cows for America's flourishing cattle market. The need grew for skilled horsemen to handle and manage the herds.