Lane Frost (Frontier Days Old West Museum)

Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States

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A bronze memorial to bull rider Lane Frost by Wyoming sculptor Chris Navarro, showing Frost mounted on a bull, outside the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum at Frontier Park in Cheyenne. Western Art & Architecture gave its size in 2012 as 15 by 11 feet.

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Approximate location · 41.140° N, 104.820° W

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Lane Frost, the 1987 world champion bull rider, died at Cheyenne Frontier Days in 1989. The bronze memorial to him in Cheyenne shows him on a bull, with only sky behind him.

Champion Lane Frost is a bronze by Wyoming sculptor Chris Navarro. Frost was 25 when he died after being hooked by a bull he had just dismounted. Cowboy State Daily gives the date as 30 July 1989 and the bull as Taking Care of Business, and reports that the ride had scored 85 points.

Navarro, a former bull rider who has sculpted professionally since 1986, set out to place a larger-than-life sculpture outside Frontier Park. Western Art & Architecture reported in 2012 that when the Cheyenne Frontier Days committee could not help raise the money, he funded the project himself by selling bronze maquettes, and that his father died during the work. A week before casting, a studio fire destroyed most of his tools and the clay surface of the sculpture. He ordered more clay and tools the same morning and finished the monument in time for its dedication ceremony. The magazine gives the sculpture's size as 15 by 11 feet; the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum lists it as a 15-foot bull rider.

The museum's executive director, Aimee Reese, told the magazine that many visitors use a bench at the base of the sculpture "to take time to contemplate". The statue stands outdoors beside the Old West Museum.

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Outdoor bronze of a bull rider outside the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum. The museum's director said in 2012 that visitors use a bench at its base. Cowboy State Daily reported in November 2024 that Cheyenne Frontier Days had closed Frontier Park to the public except during its celebration and other regular events, so check with the museum before travelling.

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Outside the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum at Frontier Park, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily reported in November 2024 that Cheyenne Frontier Days had closed Frontier Park to the public except during its celebration and other regular events, so check with the museum before travelling.

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