Drover (Australian)

Drovers NSW 1942
A mob of cattle crossing the MacIntyre River from Queensland to New South Wales
Sheep droving through the town of Warialda in northern New South Wales
Indigenous stockman at Victoria River Downs Station

A drover in Australia is a person, typically an experienced stockman, who moves livestock, usually sheep, cattle, and horses "on the hoof" over long distances. Reasons for droving may include: delivering animals to a new owner's property, taking animals to market, or moving animals during a drought in search of better feed and/or water or in search of a yard to work on the livestock. The drovers who covered very long distances to open up new country were known as "overlanders".[1]

  1. ^ "Chisholm, Alec H.". The Australian Encyclopaedia. Sydney: Halstead Press. 1963.