Cattle drive
Moving a large herd overland on foot, from range to market or between grazing lands.
Also: trail drive, long drive
A cattle drive moves a herd over a long distance on the hoof. The best known are the trail drives of the United States after the Civil War, when cowboys drove millions of Texas Longhorns north along routes such as the Chisholm Trail to railheads in Kansas, from 1866 to the mid-1880s. Railways and barbed wire ended them. Long drives were also central to cattle farming in Australia, where drovers moved herds along stock routes such as the Canning Stock Route, and in Argentina, Brazil and Britain. Drives were slow, covering perhaps fifteen to twenty-five kilometres a day, to keep the cattle in condition.