The Cheyenne Frontier Days visitor gets to see many of our community's citizens help put on the greatest Western celebration on earth. They see the cast of the parades, Miss Frontier and the Lady-inWaiting, the Indian dancers and of course the cowboys and their animal challengers. They might notice the numerous volunteers who help CFD run smoothly and with great effect. However, they generally do
not see the people behind the scenes who help get everything ready for this great event, almost as soon as the last gun for the previous show goes off.

There are many CFD staff members who ensure that the park is ready to go year
after a year for Frontier Days, and many have been doing so for some time. Among these invaluable staff members, there are those who stand out as having been at the heart of some of the greatest physical changes and growth our event has seen.
One such man is Duane "Bubba" Roedocker.

Duane first became involved with Cheyenne Frontier Days in 1966, working with parade horses and the mare and colt race. When he was hired to become superintendent of the CFD grounds in 1971, he became more than the "housekeeper" of the grounds but an important part of some of the most impressive growth Cheyenne Frontier Days had seen since the 1920s.


The list of the many buildings that he was involved with is impressive. He saw the
construction of the new "B" Stand in the early 1970s and finished his career after seeing the new 1993 East Stands enter commission. He oversaw the construction of
today's stock pens and the large county barns as well as several committee buildings, his own shop, Building B-12 and the cowboy and chuckwagon restrooms. This was on top of his service to make sure that the grounds were in top shape through the fall, winter, and spring months for twenty-five years. When he wasn’t busy with tasks for CFD, he also helped with circuses, the Laramie County Fair, horse shows and other events too numerous to mention. Many of these tasks he did alone, but sometimes he was able to enlist the help of his family. His family's involvement and many of the personal and business relationships he established
on behalf of the Cheyenne Frontier Days continue today. Duane retired in 1996.

Roedocker's legacy at Cheyenne Frontier Days lives on not only through physical
plant, through his son Robert who worked at Cheyenne Frontier Days for over 20 years and his grandson Chris who works here today.