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During the cattle drives, a chuckwagon served as mobile kitchen to carry food and cooking equipment. Chuckwagons were stocked with easy-to-preserve foods like beans, salted meats, coffee and sourdough biscuits. They also carried the bed rolls, rain slickers and tools for repair work or digging graves.

Katy Depot exhibit takes visitors through a cowboy trail ride

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January 18, 2010 2:40 PM

Katy Depot’s newest exhibit, “Rowdy Days, Rowdy Nites,” where visitors can learn all about life on a cattle drive to the railroad station in Sedalia, opens with a sneak-peek event from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Jan. 23. The exhibit runs throughout 2010 at 600 E. Third St.

Admission is $1. The depot is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

“Rowdy Days, Rowdy Nites” is designed to provide visitors with a unique taste of trail life. Visitors will learn about the Sedalia Trail (also known as the Shawnee Trail), and experience the hardships, struggles and joys of cowboys in the late 1800s.

Eleven showcases display genuine cowboy gear and clothing that enabled cowboys to work and survive on the trail — saddles, branding irons, a chuck wagon and much more.

For more information, visit sedaliarawhide.com.

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