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Haskell

efore Western settlers arrived and settled Haskell, nomadic bands of Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and Kickapoo hunted bison across northwest Texas. Today, these vast Rolling Plains surround Haskell—the Haskell County seat and a local economy anchored by mom and pop businesses. Pharmacist Lonnie Meredith moved to Haskell in 1991 to work at the local pharmacy, The Drug Store, a business he bought nine years later. Living an hour’s drive from Abilene

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