Cattle drives have had an enormous impact on popular culture. The cowboy is a uniquely American icon that came to be widely admired and imitated in sensational newspaper reports, cheaply produced books and later in motion pictures and television shows.
Driving cattle across great distances was not something found only in the western states however, up until the mid-1850s New Yorkers organized cattle drives too. [Read more…] about Cattle Drives in New York State: Some History