Muleshoe, TX

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Muleshoe, the Bailey County seat, sits 70 miles northwest of Lubbock on the Texas High Plains. US Highway 84 runs straight through town, connecting east to Lubbock and west to Clovis, New Mexico. Most visitors take this route from Lubbock across flat cotton country. The town of 5,600 anchors a farming region near the New Mexico border and claims the National Mule Memorial, a bronze tribute to the working animals that helped settle the West.