I want you to find us water and a good bed-ground every night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove] Reference

A man's got to trample down his bed-ground, as I've said already.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

He saw Deets returning from the northwest, ready to lead them to the bed-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

Usually he only rode back to the herd about dark, to guide them to a bed-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

In the afternoon the remaining herder takes the flock grazing back to the bed-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

The flock grazing out on the range will have gone by noon perhaps a mile from the bed-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

The cowboys were so entranced by the sight that they could hardly keep their minds on their business long enough to drive the cattle to a good bed-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

The lambs and good mothers of a period of twenty-four hours are bunched together and placed a little remote from the bed-ground, with a little pen and a herder to themselves: they constitute a so-called "baby-flock.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

The sheep lay on their bed-ground, quiet and contented.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

The herd had already left the bed-ground, headed south.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

"We'd better sift along, Cherokee, and turn the sheep back to the bed-ground.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

The riders were likely just throwing the beeves from the bed-ground to the trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Four-Square] Reference

They were the beasts of the night, moving deliberately from their bed-ground to the vast plains inland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation: Outer Space] Reference

This simplified the situation, but before I could recall the men, several of them had reached the bed-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

Who can explain the sixth sense that warns a night-herder of a stampede a moment before the herd jumps off the bed-ground?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raw Gold A Novel] Reference

The herd had left the bed-ground at dawn, and as the outfit rode away to relieve the last guard, every mother's son was singing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

It made me mad to see houses on every decent bed-ground, and fences so thick yuh couldn't get out and fan the breeze if yuh tried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories] Reference

Of course you can't see their camp-fire from here, but it's in plain view from the bed-ground, and not over four or five miles away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

The chances are that they had walked off a bed-ground some night while holding at Ogalalla and had been absorbed into another herd before morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

With but a small bunch of beeves to brand on the starting day, the direction in which the herd was allowed to leave the bed-ground would be the final answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

A breakfast halt was made fully seven miles from the bed-ground, a change of mounts, and then up divide, across mesa, and down slope at the foot of which ran the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

Bowers tied Mary to the wagon wheel, and, with a final rub and pat and admonition, left the lamb, to start the herd feeding toward their bed-ground on the summit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

My beeves were pushed from the bed-ground with the first sign of dawn, and when the relief overtook them, they were several miles back from the river and holding a northwest course.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

It was nearly time for the guards to change, and giving the last watch orders to point the herd, as they left the bed-ground in the morning, back on an angle towards the trail, I prepared to turn in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

Ewes bleated for their lambs, lambs for their mothers, until quavering calls in many keys made a din to awaken any sleeper, while the whole mass of dingy, rounded woolly backs started moving from the bed-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

"You can git the squaw-axe and hack out a place fer a bed-ground and you can hunt up some firewood and take a bucket out of the pack and go to the crick and locate some water while I'm finding a place to picket these horses.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dude Wrangler] Reference

Soon they would sink down singly and in pairs, by the dozen and half dozen, with a crackling of joints, their jaws waggling, sniffing, coughing, grunting from overladen stomachs, raising in their restless stirrings a little cloud of dust above the bed-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

"I can't hold dem ewes and lambs on de bed-ground no more!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

A far-off tinkle as a bell-sheep stirred on the bed-ground came to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

"They are working up to the bed-ground and will lie down pretty soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

A bed-ground where the Almighty could not have found him with a spy-glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dude Wrangler] Reference

A mile north of camp, coming in slowly towards the bed-ground, but a half-dozen of us rushed away to relieve the men on herd and turn the beeves back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

The lead sheep started for the bed-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference