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J.L. Schmidt

Capitol View

Nebraska Press Association

Cattle deaths spell tragedy on the High Plains

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

There's never a good time for a blizzard in the High Plains ... but there are some really bad ones. The bookend blizzards in January 1949 were probably the most historic of the worst ones. An estimated 500,000 farm animals died in that storm as ranchers were contemplating spring calving on the cusp of economic recovery from World War II.

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