Editing Haskell County, Kansas (section)

===Surviving the Dust Bowl===
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.<ref name=pedia>[https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/haskell-county-kansas/15296 Haskell County, Kansas], Kansapedia. Retrieved April 8, 2020.</ref> Haskell County was one of the hardest hit counties in the Midwest during the drought of 1930–1937.

The first rodeo and fair was held in Sublette in 1916 and the fair continues at the same location. The first school district was founded in Santa Fe in 1887. Amanda I. Watkins, who owned a considerable amount of land in the county, was named "World Wheat Queen" in 1926.<ref name=pedia/>