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 ...

12, 1888, is sometimes called the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard because it caught so many ... Then the wind changed direction and a great mass of thick, blinding snow rolled across the Plains.

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.