drovers
They move herds
Drovers is the plural of drover, a person who drives livestock—cattle, sheep, or pigs—over long distances to market or pasture.
The occupation was essential before railways and trucking: The drovers moved the herd across three counties.
Drover survives in place names and historical contexts but describes few people today.
Path through wilderness
- musteringGathering or summoning
- overlandVia land routes
- migrationMovement to new territory
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
herd · trek · outback · station · crossing · waypoint · billabong · waterhole
Those who raise cattle
- stockmenLivestock farm workers
- herdersLivestock guardians and guides
- cowboysRanch hands tending herds
- wranglersLivestock handlers on ranches
ranchers · graziers · herdsmen · cowhands · vaqueros · jackaroos · trail hands · outriders
Edge of settlement
- pioneeringFirst to explore territory
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- colonialOf occupied territories
- bushMulti-stemmed woody plant
Australian outback · American West · Old West · Chisholm Trail · stockyards · railhead · cattle baron · squatter
trail
Path through wilderness
mob · herd · trek · outback · station · crossing · waypoint · billabong · waterhole · camp
cattlemen
Those who raise cattle
wranglers · ranchers · graziers · herdsmen · cowhands · vaqueros · jackaroos · trail hands · outriders
frontier
Edge of settlement
- pioneeringFirst to explore territory
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- colonialOf occupied territories
bush · Australian outback · American West · Old West · Chisholm Trail · stockyards · railhead · cattle baron · squatter · homestead
- ranchingcattle, ranch, rancher, ranchers, ranching
- Herdingherding, flock, flocks, herds, shepherd
- livestock workerscowboy, rancher, cattleman, cowherd, cowhand
- Outbackoutback, station, red sand, cattle station, dust storm
- cattle driveChisholm Trail, chuck wagon, cowboy, herd, longhorn
- Cattle TownsDodge City, Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell, Newton
droversranchers
Livestock farm operators
settlers · homesteaders · stockmen · sheep farmers · farmers
droversranchers
Livestock farm operators
landowners · cattle barons · squatters · proprietors · pastoralists
- drove offCaused to flee
- drove awayCaused to depart
- drove someone crazyCaused extreme frustration
- drove someone nutsExtremely annoyed someone
- in drovesIn large numbers
- drove home