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 ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of stories by the Community History Writers, a group of area individuals committed to documenting and writing about local history and the people, places and ...

RIVERTON — There’s no shortage of information about the famous blizzard of 1949, probably the most famous weather event in Wyoming history -- but Don Strube's story stands out. The longtime Riverton ...

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 ...

Seventy years have passed since one of the worst blizzards on record pounded western South Dakota with snow, piling up to the roofs of buildings and trapping residents for weeks. State records show ...

The blizzard of 1949 left a big impression on Rex Olsen. The Morgan County-raised author now lives in Washington state, but he came back to Fort Morgan to give a talk at the Brown Bag Lunch at Fort ...

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 ...

Ed Geisert had to receive medication by air drop at this farm 8½ miles southeast of Ogallala. A huge blizzard that Gov. Val Peterson called one of the greatest catastrophes ever to hit Nebraska raged ...

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 ...

Ed Geisert had to receive medication by air drop at this farm 8½ miles southeast of Ogallala. Take a look at some of the major snowstorms and blizzards that have blasted Nebraska. A huge blizzard that ...

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,” ...