While many of us are enjoying the above-average warmth Mother Nature has sent our way, this day 138 years ago was quite a different story for those in the Northern Plains. On Jan. 12, 1888, a brutal ...
Jan. 12 marked the 132nd anniversary of the blizzard of 1888, also known as the Children’s Blizzard and the Schoolhouse Blizzard. The event claimed 235 lives, most of them children ...