wagon master

Also wag·on·mas·ter. a person hired or chosen to lead and guide a caravan of recreational vehicles, as campers, on a trip.

Facetious. any leader, chief, commander, or the like: the wagon master of the bill now before Congress.

Origin of wagon master

First recorded in 1635–45

The driver was old Bill Reed, an overland-stage driver, and our wagon-master.

An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) |Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)
The wagon-master yielded to a fate which was too great for him and consented to abandon the train.

When the West Was Young |Frederick R. Bechdolt
From the wagon-master I heard, later, that Toby had been captured in Texas, during the war.

Overland Tales |Josephine Clifford
A wagon-master from our camp had gone out hunting for forage, which was very scarce.

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 |Jacob Dolson Cox

Santa Cruz Castañeda was the wagon-master, an old-timer even in those days, and the veteran of many Indian fights.

When the West Was Young |Frederick R. Bechdolt