Was Sedalia at the trail’s end? According to the book “The First One Hundred Years,” published for Sedalia’s centennial in 1960, the answer is yes.
Quoting from the book, page 13: “At the close of the war, wagon trains came not only from south and southwest Missouri but also from Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), southeastern Kansas, Arkansas and even from Texas bringing hides, furs and pelts, and immense numbers of cattle and Indian ponies. They were driven to the railhead at Sedalia to be shipped east or exchanged for supplies for those regions then untouched by railroads.”
