Hog Drives

Between John Wayne movies and television series like The Virginian and Bonanza, Hollywood has romanticized and institutionalized cattle drives. But no one ever talks about hog drives. Is there any such thing?

Have you ever asked yourself how would a farmer get a ‘crop’ of hogs to market on the Plateau before he had a truck? Would you imagine he would load them up on a horse-drawn wagon? I saw that in a tv-western episode once where a cattleman bought a prize bull and moved him home in a mons...