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.

McCracken, an incorporated city of the third class in Rush county, is located on the Missouri Pacific R. R. and on Big Timber creek, 17 miles west of La Crosse, the county seat. It has a bank, a flour mill, grain elevators, and a weekly newspaper (the Enterprise). All the leading church denominations are represented, and there are telegraph and express offices and an international money order postoffice with one rural route. The retail establishments number nearly 100, and the population in 1910 was 371.

Page 203 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.