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THE DROVERS: WHO THEY WERE AND HOW THEY WENT

by K.J. Bonser

Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st. 1970

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. An Epic of the English Countryside. The life of the drovers who brought the cattle and sheep hundreds of miles, often along ancient grassy drove roads, how they lived, what sort of men they were, how they made their money, the kinds of cattle that they drove. Green cloth boareds, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 256 pages including index.

Text block browned. Name and date in ink to front endpaper. Book seller's address label to foot of title page. Else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn.

Stock no. 1828018

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Contents

  • List of Maps
  • List of Plates
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Beginnings of Droving
  • 2. The Scottish and the English Drover
  • 3. The Welsh Droving Trade
  • 4. The Beats and Birds They Drove
  • 5. Shoes and Shoeing
  • 6. Turnpikes, Tolls, Tallies and Enclosures
  • 7. Finance and Economics of Droving
  • 8. Murrain, Cattle Plague and other Afflictions
  • 9. Salt and Scurvy
  • 10. The Drover in Ballad, Song and Verse
  • 11. Fairs and Markets
  • 12. Drove Roads from the Scottish Border
  • 13. Drove Roads through Yorkshire
  • 14. The Hambleton Drove Road
  • 15. Drove Roads from the Welsh Border
  • 16. East Anglia and the Drovers
  • 17. The Last Stageg
  • 18. The End of an Epoch
  • Appendixes:
  • A. Evidence from Old Milestones, Maps and Road Books on the Approach to London
  • B. 'Swearing on the Horns', Horn Fairs and Other Ceremonies
  • C. The Pennine Way
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Places
  • General Index

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