Brief
History from wikipedia:
Haskell County was
organized on July 1, 1887, by J.E. Marlow;
C. H. Huntington; Joe Comes; and A. T.
Collins. It was
named for Dudley C. Haskell of
Lawrence, a former military man who died
while serving the state as a Congressman
in
1883, and contains the cities of
Satanta and Sublette.
In 1913 the Santa Fe
Railroad was built through Haskell County,
bypassing the old county seat of Santa Fe
relegating it to a
ghost town. The town was divided and
moved to the two present sites of Sublette
and Satanta. There are 11 homes in
Sublette,
as well as a few in Satanta, that
were moved from the town of Santa Fe. The
railroad and the development of oil and
gas fields
in the 1930s, and the locating of
many deep wells for irrigation
significantly improved the economy of the
area helping
overcome the "dust bowl" of that
period. Haskell County was one of the
hardest hit counties in the Midwest during
the
drought of 1930-1937.
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