T. Joe Cahill

Acknowledged to have coined the term “Daddy of ‘em All” Thomas Joseph Cahill served the Frontier Days Committee in one capacity or another for twenty-six years as secretary publicity chairman and roving ambassador. Selling programs and ushering at the first Frontier Day in 1897 he so impressed the Committee that they gave him a megaphone and appointed him the first rodeo announcer in the business. He helped to standardize the 1915 “Cheyenne Rules” which brought uniformity to the rodeo. By 1919 the “Cheyenne Rules” were printed in the pamphlets for the cowboys and were adopted at rodeos across the country. Acting as a Cheyenne Frontier Days™ promoter all of his life T. Joe Cahill created radio and print scripts publicity activities in New York and Wyoming and convinced people such as Buffalo Bill Cody and Will Rogers to participate in the annual celebration.