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,” ...

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 ...

It had been built for Buffalo Bill in 1886 as a place for relaxing between tours of his “Wild West” exhibitions. In the 1870s, the railroad brought Volga Germans to Lincoln, Nebraska, where many ...