Tourism is big business for Sheridan today. It is the second largest industry that generates more than $120 million in local revenue yearly. The Winter Rodeo is coming up, and although it doesn’t draw as many people as the WYO Rodeo does, it does bring in some tourist dollars.
One of the first accounts in the old newspapers about tourists in Wyoming was in the Wyoming Weekly Leader, Cheyenne, September 18, 1869
The rush of travel to the Pacific is immense and rapidly increasing. Tourists, excursionists and emigrants in great numbers crowd the trains. The eastward bound trains are also crowded with passengers.
At first, Sheridan was simply a town that tourists went through on their way to Yellowstone or the Black Hills.
This from The Sheridan Post, January 25, 1894 – Good words for Sheridan. In June of 1890, Mr. F.C. Johnson of Boonville, NY in company with a party of tourists, visited Sheridan while enroute to the National Park. (Yellowstone was designated…
