August 5

1888 Philip Henry Sheridan dies in Nonquit, Massachusetts.  Sheridan County, Wyoming, is named for him.

1916The Cheyenne Leader for August 5, 1916: Recruits still needed.
 

The Wyoming National  Guard was still shorthanded, which was delaying its deployment.

1917 The entire National Guard, only recently released from duty due to the crisis with Mexico, and then recalled due to the outbreak of World War One, was conscripted into the U.S. Army. The technicality of conscription was necessary due to an Adjutant General's opinion that the National Guard could not serve overseas.

For more on this topic:  http://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2017/08/today-in-wyomings-history-august-5-1917.html

1942  Earthquake felt at the West Thumb Ranger Station in Yellowstone Park.

1991  William Goodale House in Laramie added to the National Registry of Historic Places.

1996  Cheyenne's Lakeview Historic District added to the National Registry of Historic Places.

2018  The last in house printed, in Casper, edition of the Casper Star Tribune rolled off the presses, and with it over a century of there being a locally printed newspaper in Casper. The paper continued on, but printed by a contractor in Cheyenne.

2020 "STATE'S RIG COUNT REACHES ZERO"

Headline in the paper today.
Never thought I'd see that one.

On the same day, the Goshen County Commissioners passed a resolution calling the state's Coronavirus restrictions as "overblown".