Drover
A person who drives cattle or other livestock over long distances to market or new pasture.
Also: drove man, cattle dealer
A drover walked herds of cattle, sheep or pigs from where they were raised to where they were sold. In Britain drovers brought Welsh and Scottish black cattle to the fairs and to London's markets for centuries, and the great Scottish trysts at Crieff and later Falkirk gathered tens of thousands of cattle each autumn. Welsh drovers carried money and news between country and city, and one, David Jones, founded a bank at Llandovery in 1799. Their dogs, it is said, could find their own way home. In Australia drovers moved stock along long routes well into the twentieth century. Railways, then lorries, ended the trade in most places.