Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Pretty Prairie, a little town in Reno county, is located in the southern part of the county on the Kingman branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., about 20 miles south of Hutchinson, the county seat. It is the trading point for Albion township, and an important shipping point for live stock, grain and produce. It has a bank, mills and elevators, express and telegraph offices, and a money order postoffice with three rural routes. The town was incorporated as a city of the third class in 1907. The population according to the census of 1910 was 327.

Page 501 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.