The W-Heels started in 1927 when Margaret (McIntosh) Boice and a few of her friends agreed to help launch a spectacular parade with about twenty old vehicles. The group of fewer than ten people worked diligently to find riders, outfit them in appropriate costumes, and assign them to carriages. From that point forward, this group organized parade riders every summer, acting as a sub-committee of the Parade Committee. In 1941, the ladies were officially organized and adopted the name W-Heels. Today, there are 46 active W-Heels. Throughout the years, there have been around 100 members of W-Heels including many mother-daughter members as well as other family ties in the membership. The W-Heels stage the horse-drawn section of the parades, which encompasses inviting and costuming several hundred people to ride in 50 carriages, carts, and wagons as well as those who ride the antique bicycles, the side-saddle and divided skirt riders, and the schoolhouse float. In all, The W-Heels costume around 400 people for all four parades. Since 1927, members of the W-Heels have gathered and preserved antique replica clothing. The costumes are hand-sewn by a small group of the W-Heels members and generally around ten new costumes are added annually. To put into perspective the enormity of the job that the costumes require: there are 1,562 garments and 760 accessories in the collection, all of which must be maintained and accounted for. W-Heels have been involved with the care of the carriage collection from the beginning. The deteriorating condition of the collection led the W-Heels to sponsor the Wagon Doctors, a group dedicated to learning and applying wainwrighting crafts. The W-Heels group also cleans the carriages prior to the parades, each morning before the parades, and after Frontier Days. The members also assist in moving the carriages before and after Frontier Days as well as numbering them and adding signage on the carriages. Along with the carriages, the W-Heels take care of the antique bicycle collection with storage and maintenance. The W-Heels are an important part in preserving our Cheyenne Frontier Days History and we are thankful for their dedication to maintaining our carriage collection and ensuring our parades go off without a hitch.