History Main / CattleDrive

* The novel ''Literature/{{Centennial}}'' by Creator/JamesAMichener. It was specifically mentioned how much more hazardous this was than a normal cattle drive because it was a mixed-gender herd for a new ranch, this was late in the season, and they'd have to go through hostile Indian territory.

* The novel ''Literature/{{Centennial}}'' by JamesMichener. It was specifically mentioned how much more hazardous this was than a normal cattle drive because it was a mixed-gender herd for a new ranch, this was late in the season, and they'd have to go through hostile Indian territory.

* The novel ''Centennial'' by JamesMichener. It was specifically mentioned how much more hazardous this was than a normal cattle drive because it was a mixed-gender herd for a new ranch, this was late in the season, and they'd have to go through hostile Indian territory.
* The novel ''The Log of a Cowboy'' by Andy Adams is a fictionalised account of a cattle drive written by a former working cowboy.

* ''VideoGame/EmpireEarthII'': The second Maasai mission has you escort the village herd of cows to a different pasture. Thankfully the cows don't wander off in the path of the armed mercenaries trying to kill you.

In Real Life these were among the great risks to a ranch. They need to transport the cattle to make money, but if something goes wrong they could lose everything. Dangers include a [[AnimalStampede stampede]], [[TheRustler rustlers]], snakes, storms, flash floods, drought, etc. These days it's done to impress tourists; real ranchers use trucks.

* The Creator/BusterKeaton classic ''Film/GoWest'' involves Buster having to get a herd of cattle to the stockyards. He first has to fight off an attack by an enemy rancher, and then guide all those cows through the streets of the city after leaving the train station.

* The novel ''Centennial'' by JamesMichener. It was specifically mentioned how much more hazardous this was than a normal cattle drive, because it was a mixed gender herd for a new ranch, this was late in the season, and they'd have to go through hostile Indian territory.

* The characters from ''Series/TheVirginian'' appear leading one of these in the tele-movie ''The Gambler Returns: The Luck of Draw'' which features cameos by cast members of many classic TV westerns.

* Stan Smith of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' dragooned his son and son's friends into a cattle drive ''through city streets'' in an effort to make them "more manly." HilarityEnsues, especially as Stan is more delusional than usual during the event (from eating some of the diseased cow-meat while Steve and his friends declined).

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* "Trail Boss, Matt Savage" was a strip that ran in ''Western Comics''. Matt Savage still occasionally appears in Franchise/TheDCU.

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* The Creator/BusterKeaton classic ''Film/GoWest'' involves Buster having to get a herd of cattle to the stockyards. He first has to fight off an attack by an enemy rancher, and then guide all those cows through the streets of the city after leaving the train station.
* The first ''Film/CitySlickers'' movie was set around some city guys temporarily joining a ranch and helping on the cattle drive, facing just about every stereotypical problem on the ways, plus a few others.
* ''Film/TheCowboys''. With all the men in the district gone, [[Creator/JohnWayne Wil Anderson]] is forced to use high schoolers to take his herd to market.
* ''Film/RedRiver'', also starring John Wayne.

* Classic Australian film ''Film/TheOverlanders'', herding cattle halfway across the continent under the threat of Japanese invasion.
* Predictably, the 1951 western ''Film/CattleDrive'' featured one of these.

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* The characters from ''Series/TheVirginian'' appear leading one of these in the tele-movie ''The Gambler Returns: The Luck of Draw'' which features cameos by cast members of many classic TV westerns.

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* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', on Tatooine you herd banthas to lure a krayt dragon out of a cave where it's blocking the way to a PlotCoupon.

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* The novel ''LonesomeDove'' features a cattle drive to Montana, and manages to include the obligatory stampedes, rustlers, snakes, flash floods, storms, wild Indians, etc... and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having to eat grasshoppers]].
* In the book and movie ''Literature/{{Old Yeller}}'', one of the main plot points is that the father of the family has gone on a cattle drive, leaving his wife and two kids at home.

* ''Film/TheCowboys''. With all the men in the district gone, [[JohnWayne Wil Anderson]] is forced to use high schoolers to take his herd to market.

* "Trail Boss, Matt Savage" was a strip that ran in ''Western Comics''. Matt Savage still occasionally appears in TheDCU.

In Real Life these were among the great risks to a ranch. They need to transport the cattle to make money, but if something goes wrong they could lose everything. Dangers include a stampede, [[TheRustler rustlers]], snakes, storms, flash floods, drought, etc. These days it's done to impress tourists; real ranchers use trucks.

* In the book and movie ''Literature/{{Old Yeller}}'', one of the main plot point is that the father of the family has gone on a cattle drive, leaving his wife and two kids at home.

In Real Life these were among the great risks to a ranch. They need to transport the cattle to make money, but if something goes wrong they could lose everything. Dangers include a stampede, [[TheRustler rustlers]], snakes, storms, flash floods, drought, ect. These days it's done to impress tourists; real ranchers use trucks.