Western Historic Trails Center

Nebraska


The long entry drive through open land sets the mood for this museum about the migration west. The modern interactive exhibits give an engaging and abbreviated picture of what it was like to cross North America by wagon train. Displays also cover the impacts on Native Americans and the reasons why people pushed west.


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