Walking With Cattle

“In careful prose, and with black and white photographs, [Williams] makes a fascinating way of life both grounded and heroic.” — The Scotsman Droving was once the lifeblood of Scotland’s rural economy, and for centuries Scotland’s glens and mountain passes were alive with thousands of cattle making their way to the market trysts of Crieff and Falkirk. With the Industrial Revolution, ships, railways, and eventually lorries took over the drovers’ trade, and by the early twentieth century, the age-