Dale Yelton is driven to celebrate Sedalia’s cowboy roots. And as co-chairman of the Trail’s End Committee, his vision extends way beyond the multiple-element piece of public art he and his supporters are trying to place in the city.
After the Democrat Editorial Board last week suggested placing the Trail’s End monument — the concept for which now includes a statue, a locomotive, a cattle car, a drover’s car, a water tower and, the latest addition, a windmill — in the downtown area near the Amtrak depot, Yelton was invited to address a group of downtown business owners who meet weekly to discuss ways they can work together.
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