SWEETWATER COUNTY — The Sweetwater County Historical Museum recently recognized the 75th anniversary of the Blizzard of 1949; it was one of the worst on record for Wyoming and the northern plains. The ...

Jan. 2, 1949 started out as a calm, almost autumn-like, morning. I was in Kindergarten at the time. The Nebraska Weather Service issued the following forecast: "Cloudy with light snow. Little change ...

Author and historian James Fuller will give a talk on his new book “The Wyoming Blizzard of 1949” at the Natrona County Library. The author recounts “harrowing stories of tenacity and fortitude,” ...

Editor’s note: Telegraph-Bulletin reporter Donald C. Cieber made several trips into and over snow-stricken western Nebraska in the wake of the Jan. 2-5 Blizzard of 1949. The following consists of ...

J.J. Ganney of Ashby, Neb., scaled this huge snowbank in January 1949 and used portable equipment to patch in to telephone lines. One of the worst blizzards on record swept across the Plains 66 years ...

The year 1949 roared into the northern Plains with a blizzard that still ranks as one of the worst on record. For Ozzie Osheim and his college pals, it was an adventure as they and about 400 other ...

Retired Oklahoma State professor Zane Quible grew up on a cattle ranch in northwest Nebraska, and he was only 6 years old when the 1949 Blizzard hit. It was a storm where people saw snow heaped as ...

January 2, 1949 - The first storm marking the Blizzard of 1949 began on Jan. 2 and continued through Jan. 5. It brought heavy snow, strong winds and cold temperatures to much of the northern plains.

CHEYENNE For the survivors of the 1949 blizzard that paralyzed the state, this week's snowstorm is nothing. Cheyenne received 16 inches of snow on Tuesday, a record amount of snowfall for March 18, ...

One of the worst blizzards on record suffocated all but southeast Nebraska. The region’s economy teetered on the edge of collapse as ceaseless winds and fresh snow defied efforts to keep roads and ...