It was to have one division linking Kansas City to St. Joseph, a distance of 52 miles, and another smaller line, 27.7 miles, to the spa community of Excelsior Springs. The desirability of the Clay County route was the fact the steam Wabash RR was carrying 250,000 passengers annually to the Springs.
Born June 21, 1979, native Minnesotan actor Chris Pratt scored his first big break on television as the troubled physician's son Bright Abbott on the WB series drama Everwood, opposite Treat Williams and others, and segued into film with a prominent role in the biting satire Strangers with Candy (2005) alongside Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert.
Pratt, KS. Online Offers. Pratt is a city in and the county seat of Pratt County in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,835. Pratt is home to Pratt Community College. In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a main line from Herington to Pratt. In 1888, this line was extended to Liberal. Later, it was extended to Tucumcari, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas.