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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...