Cody, Wyoming is the most patriotic town I have ever been in, with five days of celebrations around the Fourth of July. The first time we celebrated the 4th in Cody was in 2021 on our big 109-day go west trip. The second was when we lived in downtown Cody in 2023.
Here in North Carolina this year, we’re celebrating the fourth of July this weekend along with the release of my newest book, Montana Delta Rodeo Cowboy: Bodyguard Protector which has a scene which puts reader right into the stadium at the big rodeo stampede in Cody, WY on the fourth of July with the hero and heroine.
Now let me take you back to our 2021 experiences.
June 30th was the start, with the Extreme Bulls rodeo. We got tickets, and on the advice of a local, also got tickets to a nearby chuckwagon supper and show. After we ate, we could walk from the show to the stadium for the rodeo. Everything about the evening was amazing and I highly recommend this experience.
There are three parades annually in Cody to celebrate the Fourth. One on the 3rd, one on the 4th, and they even have a children’s parade. So that’s three chances to watch a Fourth of July parade in Cody. One exciting thing about watching parages out west is when they start the parade with longhorns coming down the street. I find that exciting every time.
We attended two parades in 2021. On the morning of July 3rd, we found places near the Irma Hotel where the announcer was speaking from the second floor.
On the morning of the 4th, there was a second, larger parade. We sat on the corner at the other end of the street where there was a second announcer.
That evening we went to the top of a hill overlooking the city and land beyond to watch the fireworks. This is where the locals go to watch them. The fireworks bursting over the landscape were spectacular.
Then there’s the Buffalo Bill Cody Stampede Rodeo which draws tourists from all over the world to Cody, Wyoming. Rodeo happens in Cody every night of the summer, so you can always catch one, but for the Stampede, get your tickets ahead of time. These tickets can sell out right after they become available.
In 2021 we were unable to get tickets for the rodeo on the 4th but got tickets for the June 30th extreme bulls. So exciting! I hold my breath when a cowboy is riding one of those bulls and when the rodeo clowns do things to get the bulls attention. This is a sport which is inherently dangerous.
When we went to live and work in Cody in 2023, we knew to watch for Stampede tickets for the 4th to become available. We bought two.
In 2023 we went to the parade on the 4th and moved down the street in the other direction closer to the start. Our grandson was visiting and got to see the longhorns and all the horses and cowboys. It rained that day, so I don’t have as many pictures.
To see more pictures from Cody and Fourth of July celebrations, visit my travel blog below. And if you follow me on social media, you’ll begin to see many more photos I’ve taken at rodeos as I promote my new book, starting this week.
You can armchair travel to the rodeo with me.
Check out my travel blog here: https://beautifuldaytraveler.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/five-days-of-fourth-of-july-celebration-in-cody-wyoming/
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I’m wishing you happy reading and a beautiful day, until next time, when I return with more Tales from the Trailer.
In the heart of Big Sky Country, where the rugged beauty of Montana surrounds her, Emma Pearl Smith finds herself on the run from one of the most dangerous Mexican cartels operating in Montana. With a target on her back and nowhere to hide, she seeks refuge in the one place she never expected - with a rodeo cowboy who lives by his own code of honor.
Her boss is killed by the cartel, just as she is about to begin her vacation in Bozema, and her escort, Nathan Smalls, helps Emma go on the run, changing her name to Pearl Hayes.
On their way to Billings, Montana, cartel members catch up to them on the highway and begin shooting. Surprised by a DEA task force set up to stop semi shipments from the cartel, Emma and Nathan escape being killed. But with gunshot serious wounds, they are sent to the Billings Clinic.
Enter Destry Walsh, a battle-hardened Delta Force veteran whose life has revolved around keeping others safe. He's working as an RN when a young woman is brought in with a gunshot wound and sent into surgery, and the ICU, his floor. With a police guard on her door and knowing she'll need protection once she is released, he volunteers to hide her and protect her at his ranch.
When he takes on the job of Emma's bodyguard, he quickly discovers that protecting her is more than a duty - it's a fierce, unyielding passion that ignites in the face of danger. As they get to know each other, the line between shy protector and the shy secretary becomes blurred, igniting a connection neither of them can resist.
With the cartel closing in and a shadowy past that threatens to unravel their fragile sanctuary, time may be running out.
When he takes her to her first rodeo at the Buffalo Bill Cody Stampede in Cody, Wyoming, on the fourth of July, on their first date, she makes one fatal mistake.
In the dusty stands of the rodeo ring beneath the star-studded skies of Cody, Wyoming, love and danger collide, forcing them to fight for their future.
Montana Delta Rodeo Protector: Bodyguard Protector is a heart-racing romantic suspense that will leave you breathless and rooting for a couple forged in adversity, where loyalty and love are tested against the most formidable odds. Will they find the strength to survive, or will the past tear them apart forever?
Romance Suspense | Romance Western [Belo Dia Publishing Inc., On Sale: July 4, 2025, e-Book , / ]
Debra Parmley is a multi-genre author who after living for 23 years just outside Memphis, TN, sold everything to live full-time in a 43-foot motorhome with her Air Force veteran husband. She writes as they travel the U.S.
She has written military romantic suspense, contemporary romance, historical romance, dystopian romance, holiday romance, fairy tale romance, urban fantasy romance, poetry and nonfiction.
Debra travels widely, reads widely and writes widely. You will find danger, action and adventure, and romance in her stories. In her Tales from the Trailer articles, she shares the RV lifestyle and travel adventures in the U.S.
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