Orejana outfit : Arizona's historic O RO ranch 1993 to 2013
(Book)

To Arizona cowpunchers, the Spanish word orejana refers to an ownerless, unbranded bovine old enough to quit it's mother, in other words a maverick. somehow that word evokes images of the legendary O RO Ranch north of Prescott, Arizona. Once a Spanish Land Grant, this outfit has a tangible mystique about it that everyone who ever worked or lived here feels. Journalist and photographer Kathey McCraine is one of the very few people ever allowed to photograph on thie iconic ranch, which is locked to the public. From 1993 to 2013 she made numerous trips to the headquarters and to the remote areas on the ranch where the roundup wagon camped. Her unstaged photos depict the everyday lives of some of the last of the real, big outfit cowboys, at work catching horses out of the remuda, dragging calves to the branding fire, and breaking broncs.