Learn about the Great Blizzard of 1888, one of the fiercest East Coast storms ever recorded. As railroads drove western expansion, Buffalo Bill brought Wild West shows back east, hiring displaced ...

In 1888, the east coast experienced one of the worst blizzards in American history. It dumped four feet of snow and left hundreds dead. But it also helped inspire one of the greatest ...

The nightmare mega-storm on Jan. 12, 1888, is sometimes called the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard because it caught ... Then the wind changed direction and a great mass of thick, blinding snow ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 14.--The loss of life by the great blizzard of Thursday is shown to have been very great, by far the largest number of casualties being reported from Dakota points.