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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vincent McKeown stands beside his car in a 20-foot deep snow canyon made by plows on Highway 275 10 miles west of Norfolk in February 1949. Editor's note: Originally published Feb. 23, 2014: On a sea ...

The 1949 tornado and 1979 blizzard in Cape Girardeau are two events discussed in a new book on natural disasters. "Show Me ... Nature's Wrath" is the latest book by Don Corrigan, a journalist and ...

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,” ...