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a person who walked cattle hundreds of miles before anyone invented the truck
means A person whose job is to drive or herd livestock — cattle, sheep, or other animals — over long distances on foot or horseback to market or new pasture.
from From the verb 'drive,' in its old sense of urging animals onward — Old English 'drīfan,' to push or force forward. A 'drove' is a herd being moved, and the one doing the moving is the 'drover.' The word goes back to a time when 'driving' cattle meant exactly that: walking behind a slow river of beasts for weeks, prodding them down green lanes and ancient droveways toward distant markets.
- slow commute
- Droves moved roughly 10 to 15 miles per day
- welsh legend
- Drovers herded cattle and geese across Britain
- shod geese
- Geese were walked through tar and grit for hoof protection
- trusted hands
- Many doubled as informal bankers carrying money between towns
- word survives
- Australian outback drovers still move stock over vast distances
charles goodnight — pioneered the goodnight-loving trail in 1866, driving 6,000 cattle from texas to colorado
nat love — famous african american cowboy and drover on western cattle trails in the 1870s-1880s