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单词 road agent
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road agent

noun historical
A highwayman or bandit, especially along stagecoach routes in the western US.There were skirmishes with Indians, and masked brigands, the so-called road agents, held up stagecoaches and sometimes murdered the occupants....
  • His August 13 letter disappeared in transit, a not uncommon occurrence since road agents still plagued the stage routes and Indian hostilities continued on the plains.
  • This was home to the sheriff who, with his gang of road agents, robbed and murdered miners for their gold before town vigilantes strung him up on January 10, 1864.
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