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The '''Mormon Trail Center at Historic Winter Quarters''' is located in Omaha, Nebraska, adjacent to the [[Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple]] and the [[Mormon Pioneer]] Cemetery. Several hundred of the Saints died at Winter Quarters before embarking on the trek to the Salt Lake Valley. The cemetery includes a sculpture called “Tragedy of Winter Quarters” by [[Avard Fairbanks]].

The Mormon Trail Center is a visitors’ center that hosts exhibits about [[Winter Quarters]], a major temporary settlement for Latter-day Saint pioneers after they were forced to leave [[Nauvoo]], Illinois. The exhibits include descriptions of the westward migration to the Salt Lake Valley by wagon, handcart, sailing ship, and train. Although Winter Quarters was a temporary settlement, it, and others like it, were well-established by the Saints as if they would stay there longer. Many of the Church leaders spent time here, including [[Brigham Young]]. In Winter Quarters he received a revelation regarding the travel west; it is now section 136 in the [[Doctrine and Covenants]].[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136?lang=eng]

The center was dedicated by [[Gordon B. Hinckley]] in 1997. [[Franz Johansen]] sculpted the statue of a Mormon handcart family that is situated in front of the center. 

[[Category:Mormon History]]
[[Category:Places of Church Interest]]