“Contents,” Ensign, Dec. 2002, 1
Ensign
December 2002
Volume 32 Number 12
Inside front cover: The Birth of Jesus, by Del Parson
Inside back cover: Winter Quarters, by Gregory Sievers. After negotiations with Indian tribal leaders, Church leaders established the town of Winter Quarters on the west side of the Missouri River in September 1846. About 4,000 Latter-day Saints lived there, with many others living across the river in hundreds of small camps in Iowa.