The colorful eight-foot tall cowboy boots around Cheyenne Wyoming real estate are standing out today.  One of a kind, they are.  Although no one has reported seeing giant cowboys sneaking to town from Cheyenne Wyoming ranches to the north or Cheyenne WY real estate in Saddle Ridge, Wildflower Ranch, or Lone Wolf Ranch, perhaps there is a tall one living in a home in Cheyenne’s Cowboy Ranch South.  

Seriously, local artists are carefully painting those gorgeous big boots we see in and around downtown Cheyenne real estate.  They depict the history of the State of Wyoming and the history of Cheyenne during times before land ever went on the real estate market.  “These Boots are Made for Talking” is part of a joint fundraising project of the Cheyenne Depot Museum Foundation and the downtown Development Authority.  

Local businesses sponsor the boots.  Each one is approximately eight feet tall and eight feet from heel to toe.  Each boot is a titled piece of themed artwork.  For example, “Patriotic Book” has a folded USA flag strapped along the outside of the boot.

“These Boots are Made for Talking” started in 2004 as a fundraiser but it generates considerable interest as public art.  Since the project started, over $100,000 has been donated to the Cheyenne Depot Museum Endowment Fund.  The Fund supports the future success of the museum.

The finished large boots in the public art campaign continue to be popular wherever they end up showing their colors.  The Cheyenne Depot Museum
Complex along with businesses and organizations around the Cheyenne area are displaying the popular boots.  They draw tremendous local and national interest.  In fact, the Cheyenne Depot Museum Foundation offers to make custom boots for businesses, organizations, and individuals around the United States.  The boots are great attention getters.

For anyone up for searching for all of the eight-foot-tall boots sprinkled around town, the Depot in the Visitors Center provides location maps.

Set at about 6,000 feet elevation in the northern reaches of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, the city was founded in 1867.  General Grenville M. Dodge and his survey crew platted a site in Dakota Territory at Crow Creek, a tributary of the South Platte River.  The community is named for the American Indian Cheyenne nation, one of the most prominent Great Plains tribes.

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