Feet of snow, howling winds and bone-chilling cold. Seventy years ago on Wednesday, Jan. 2, a blizzard of epic proportions walloped western South Dakota.

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 ...

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.

Snowdrifts bury cars and buildings alike in Lusk following the initial blizzard, which hit from Jan. 2 to Jan. 4, 1949. The city, and much of the region, continued to be hit with snowstorms ...

The first in a series of major storms pounded the region on Jan. 3, 1949. At the time this storm was widely regarded as the state's worst winter ever - ...

The Blizzard of '49 was on its ways Like a hurricane, the winds blew. In its center was an eye of calm and clear weather. Around it, revolving counter-clockwise, were whipping winds.

This week marks the 65th anniversary of the Blizzard of 1949, when Mother Nature dumped more than two feet of snow, halting the railroads and stranding livestock. The Union Pacific ...

Back in the day, Jan. 3, 1949: Blizzard called one of the greatest catastrophes to hit Nebraska The first in a series of major storms pounded the region 73 years ago today.

SHERIDAN — Sheridan Fulmer Library will host a screening and panel discussion of the Wyoming PBS documentary “Blizzard of ‘49” at 2 p.m., and again at 6 p.m. January 26 in the Inner Circle ...