They called them “tumbleweed wagons” because like their namesake, the Russian thistle, they seemed to wander aimlessly across the territory picking up bad guys and transporting them to more secure facilities.
A tumbleweed wagon was a jail on wheels used to take prisoners to a more permanent jail or prison. Many of those small town jails weren’t secure enough to hold a hardened criminal for lo
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