The Trail’s End Committee used a Thursday evening town hall at the Pettis County Courthouse to crack the whip — literally — behind their effort to erect a monument to Sedalia’s history as a rail and cattle town in the late 1800s.
After a brief introduction By Trail’s End Committee co-chairman Dale Yelton, the crowd was treated to cowboy poetry and a repurposing of the theme to “Rawhide” by Dr. Douglas Kiburz.
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