The Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site has partnered with the Albany County Tourism Board to host the Western Outlaw Festival & Butch Cassidy Days June 15-17 in Laramie.The weekend will be filled with family events, living history, comedy skits, musicians, cookouts, vintage baseball, new exhibits, evening concerts, tractor shows, a horse show, "Butch Cassidy Look-a-Like Contest," the U.S. Artillery Regimental Brass Band and comedy and music by Rattle Snake Jake.
Admission is $5 for adults, $2.50 for 12-17, 11 and under are free. It includes access to the historic prison, the exhibit hall and all the events. The Albany County Cowbells will provide food on Friday night. Saturday night, the Wyoming Territorial Park Historic Association will be selling barbeque beef and pulled pork.
On Saturday evening, Wyoming's Prickly Pair will perform an open-air concert at the site. Prickly Pair (Les and Locke Hamilton) preserve vintage Western music, cowboy folk tunes and old-time fiddle music as true Americana art forms. Les is a fourth generation fiddle player from Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. Locke’s rhythm guitar accompanies her trained, stellar voice. The concert is co-sponsored by the Wyoming Arts Council. The duo is on the WAC artists' roster.
