beef-herd

When the train and beef-herd, with which Billy Cody had gone, arrived in the vicinity of old Fort Kearney their first serious adventure occurred, and for a while the boy thought of his mother's prediction, that he

Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood Prentiss Ingraham

The beef-herd, that had been the pivotal point of the round-up and had made the mighty plain echo to its stampings and bellowings, beating up simooms that choked it with thirst, blinded it with dust, confounding itself on every side by the very fury of its blind force, had trailed for

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

He split the temporary outfit, brought together for the purpose of handling the beef-herd, into factions.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

There would be as many as ten men with each beef-herd; and the herd would include about five thousand head.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

a beef-herd, strayed, and with no tag for its prompt delivery.

The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories B. M. Bower 1905