Figure 2.5: Beef wheel in the ranching country of the Harney Basin in central Oregon.

Figure 2.5: Beef wheel in the ranching country of the Harney Basin in central Oregon. This windlass device hoists the carcass of a slaughtered animal to facilitate butchering. Derived, as was much of the local ranching culture, from Hispanic Californians, the beef wheel represents the material folk culture of ranching.

(Courtesy of Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov.)