road agent

(formerly) a highwayman, especially along stagecoach routes in the western U.S.

Origin of road agent

First recorded in 1850–55

Leaning over she took the weapons of the road-agent from his belt, and told him to move on ahead.

Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. |Prentiss Ingraham
It has no past; no gentleman of the road ever robbed its passengers; no road-agent nowadays would think of ‘holding it up.’

Vistas of New York |Brander Matthews
She was riding away with a freebooter, a road-agent, to be held for ransom.

The Border Legion |Zane Grey
I had taken for granted that we were hunting suspects of the road-agent persuasion.

The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories |Mary Hallock Foote

If you're right this road-agent, after he killed his pals, would hev rid back right through town.

The Lone Star Ranger |Zane Grey

road agent

US (formerly) a bandit who robbed stagecoaches; highwayman