road-agents

These admirable friends were part of the system which has made travel as safe throughout Spain as it is in Connecticut, where indeed I sometimes wonder that road-agents do not stop my Boston express in the waste expanse of those certain sand barrens just beyond New Haven.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

There was Bucky O'Neill, of Arizona, Captain of Troop A, the Mayor of Prescott, a famous sheriff throughout the West for his feats of victorious warfare against the Apache, no less than against the white road-agents and man-killers.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

Driving over the trail through the Rocky Mountains, the drivers were constantly annoyed by road-agents, whose daring robberies made it most dangerous for a coach to pass over the line.

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

One of their notable captures was a brace of road-agents who had appropriated the Concho stage road and about everything of value that travelled it.

The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

While riding Pony Express the road on Buffalo Billy's run became infested with road-agents, who were wont to halt every rider they could catch, and also rob the stages.

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

"Ask 'em," was the quiet reply, and as the leader of the road-agents, closely followed by his half-dozen men, all in masks, rode up to the stage door, Billy suddenly drew his revolver and with the flash the chief fell dead.

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

With the Sioux pushed back within the lines of their new reservation in southern Dakota and semi-pacified, and with the Sidney road swept clean of road-agents, life in Boone's old haunts became for him too tame.

The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

"Well, they are going to be regular road-agents, aren't they?" asked the snub-nosed boy.

The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air Margaret Penrose

"Guess that's considerably more'n you an 'your gang of road-agents found on the harmless traveller you robbed on the trail last week and left gagged and bound," he said pointedly.

Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

Could it be that he and the station man were road-agents, plotting some act of violence?

The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels