What is "bushwhackers"

Usage examples of "bushwhackers".

Which meant as the wagon careened along, it was actually drawing closer to the bushwhacker--or bushwhackers, because there might be more than one.

Chances were, the bushwhackers would get tired and rush him to get it over with before he ever had a chance to bleed to death.

If those bushwhackers had a lick of sense, they would be working their way around behind him even now.

As he had expected, at least one of the bushwhackers had circled the deadfall and come at it from the other direction, from the clearing.

Whoever these bushwhackers were, no matter what the identity of the mysterious boss they worked for, one thing was crystal clear to Longarm.

Firing as much from instinct as anything else, he snapped a couple of shots toward the bushwhackers, and was rewarded by the sight of one of the men doubling over and collapsing.

His eyes followed a flash of color that he spotted on the other side of the gully, and after a moment one of the bushwhackers stepped into clear view.

Longarm twisted in the saddle, hanging on tightly with one hand while he used the other to empty his pistol toward the surviving bushwhackers, who had also reached the trail.

The bushwhackers were on foot, and they would have to find their horses again before they could come after him.

The way those bushwhackers had been talking, the raid had been planned for later in the day.

So it was that, when the heavily-armed and mounted element of bushwhackers struck the head of the column, they found not a shattered, disorganized and demoralized party to slaughter and plunder at leisure, but rather a rock-hard line of disciplined troops.