In the Clint Eastwood movie Hang ’em High, a “tumbleweed wagon” picks up prisoners to haul them off to jail. Did such wagons actually exist?

In the Clint Eastwood movie Hang ’em High, a “tumbleweed wagon” picks up prisoners to haul them off to jail. Did such wagons actually exist? Anthony Long Washington, Utah Yep, a tumbleweed wagon was a jail on wheels used to transport prisoners to the calaboose. A man with roving proclivities was also called a “tumbleweed,” and that might have something to do with the naming of the vehicle. Before Hang ’em High, Eastwood starred in the TV series Rawhide. In a 1959 episode, “Incident