The Wyoming Territorial State Park will take a leap back in time to the late 1800s on Aug. 5 and 6 as actors from Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Tennessee, Nebraska and California advance on the park grounds to engage in an Indian Plains War re-enactment.

The Wyoming Territorial Park is located in Laramie on Interstate 80 at the Snowy Range Road exit 311. It is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Ticket prices for the entire park (museums and frontier town) are $10 for adults and $7 for children. Museum-only tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for children. Frontier Town tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for children.

The first weekend in August is filled with living history displays and presentations. One skirmish takes place each morning around 10 a.m., with another around 2 p.m. Several skits and smaller scenarios are scheduled throughout the day on both days. These include spinning wool, pay day for the troops, stagecoach ambush, attempted lynching, drill and guard posting, laundresses and cooking, 1800s surgical demonstration and amputation skit, and living history interpretations by Gen. Crook and Gen. Custer.

The park will literally be transformed during this weekend with soldiers, Indians, townspeople and ruffians.

The park's museums - the Wyoming Territorial Prison Museum and National U.S. Marshals Museum - are open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Frontier Town is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Chuckwagon Restaurant on the grounds is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Frontier Town features gunfights, jury trials, saloon hall shows, stagecoach rides and Calamity Jane as portrayed by her great-great-niece.

Other events this month include: Aug. 11 to 13, Territorial Horse Expo; Aug. 19 and 20, Vintage Baseball Weekend; Aug. 26 and 27, Native American Weekend (a tribute to the Arapaho and Shoshone tribes of Wyoming).

A western music talent competition is planned for Sept. 2.

For information, call 307-745-6161 or visit the Internet at www.wyoprisonpark.org.