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Haskell County (county code HS) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 4,256.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/20/20081.html )〕 Its county seat and most populous city is Sublette.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 ==History== Haskell County was founded in 1887. It was named for Dudley C. Haskell, a former member of Congress. John M. Barry, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, Louisiana, concluded that Haskell County was the location of the first outbreak of the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed between 21 and 100 million people.〔Barry, John. (The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications ), ''Journal of Translational Medicine'', 2:3. Accessed 2007-08-26.〕 The same point is made in his critically acclaimed book ''The Great Influenza; The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History''. Dr. Loring Miner, a tough and intelligent Haskell County doctor, warned the editors of ''Public Health Reports'' of the U.S. Public Health Service about the new and more deadly variant of the virus. It produced the common influenza symptoms with a new intensity: "violent headache and body aches, high fever, non-productive cough. . . . This was violent, rapid in its progress through the body, and sometimes lethal. This influenza killed. Soon dozens of patients—the strongest, the healthiest, the most robust people in the county—were being struck down as suddenly as if they had been shot." 〔John M. Barry, ''The Great Influenza; The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History'' (New York: Penguin Books, c2004, 2005) p. 93.〕 Barry writes that "In the first six months of 1918, Miner's warning of 'influenza of a severe type' was the only reference in that journal to influenza anywhere in the world.〔John M. Barry, ''The Great Influenza; The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History'' (New York: Penguin Books, c2004, 2005) pp. 94-95.〕 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, Kansas, Kansapedia )〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Haskell County, Kansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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