Ritzville Public Library Photo Archive

Photo #1 This combined-harvester was captured in action around 1910 in the Big Bend region outside of Ritzville Wa. The motive power is supplied by mules, though one can pick out a couple of horses here and there. Harvester veteran Joe Jantz has told me that mules were "used on the inside because they could take the heat." Temperatures often hit the century mark and beyond during the harvest months of July and August. The harvester pictured here is most likely a Holt or Haines-Houser, two machines that were quite numerous throughout wheat country in the Far West.

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