Greetings from the Trail’s End Committee. You may have heard about our group’s efforts to commemorate Sedalia’s historic legacy, which focuses on the westward construction of the railroad and the cattle drives during the 1860s from Texas up the Shawnee Trail to the railhead which stalled out temporarily during the Civil War.
We know they were here because they both left tracks.
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