Blizzard of 1888
By James C. OlsonSuperintendent, State Historical SocietyJanuary, 1947
Fifty-nine years ago this week–on January 12, 1888--Nebraska was hit with what old-timers will ...
Blizzard of 1888
What We Found
Blizzards
The two most famous winter storms in Nebraska history occurred in 1873 and in 1888. The storm which struck on April 13, 1873, was a violent snowfall accompanied by a ...
Timeline Tuesday: An Ice Union of Two Cities
January 12, 1888, marked not only the famous blizzard but a happier event -- what the Omaha Daily Bee on January 13 called "An Ice Union of Two Cities." Despite the ...
Major North’s Buffalo Hunt Ended by a Blizzard
About midnight the wind changed to the north, bringing rain and sleet, and within an hour a blizzard was raging on the open prairie.
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New artifact has ties to “The School Children’s Blizzard of 1888”
The Nebraska History Library recently received a donated book from a University Library in Kansas that was inscribed by Minnie Freeman Penney. Minnie is of course ...
Blizzard of January 12, 1888
The early settlers of Nebraska faced many hardships, a great number of these weather and climate-related. Among the most destructive natural disasters were the sudden ...
Looking Back on the Blizzard of 1888
Below are three different looks at how the Blizzard of 1888 affected Nebraskans. One is from the Superintendent of the Nebraska State Historical Society (History ...
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