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 ...

GILLETTE — Seventy-five years later, the blizzards of 1949 remain one of the worst recorded storms that have ever crossed the northern Great Plains. Reports tally more than 70 people who died in the ...

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,” ...

Fran Zeleny was only 8 years old at the time, but she remembers the Blizzard of 1949. A car ride through bitter cold and blowing snow is something she recalls even 70 years later. Elvera Davis ...

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 ...

Take a look at some of the major snowstorms and blizzards that have blasted Nebraska. The first snowfall of the Blizzard of 1949 technically began at the end of 1948; but two of the worst days of ...