Hay Derricks of the Great Basin and Upper Snake River Valley
Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
Salt Lake City
University of Utah Press
2013
65-82
The hay derrick is one of a few pieces of farm equipment in the irrigated sections of the Rocky Mountain area which are almost universally homemade. This fact gives it significance as an item of the folklore of material culture, along with fences of native materials, noncommercial gates and gate locks, and even patchwork quilts. In a recent automobile trip which carried the authors over Highway US 91 and parts of 191 and 89 from Bunkerville, Nevada, to Yellowstone National Park— a distance of about a thousand miles— only two commercial stackers were observed among probably more than fifteen hundred derricks of home construction. [From the text]