A private messenger and guard for rail or stagecoach transit.
A circa 1904 drawing of an Overland Mail stagecoach under attack—note guard with shotgun sitting to the left of the driver
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a shotgun messenger was a private "express messenger" and guard, especially on a stagecoach but also on a train, in charge of overseeing and guarding a valuable private shipment, such as particularly the contents of a strongbox (on a stagecoach) or safe (on a train).
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a shotgunmessenger was a private "express messenger" and guard, especially on a stagecoach but also on a train...
latest. The expression "riding shotgun" is derived from "shotgunmessenger", a colloquial term for "express messenger", when stagecoach travel was popular...
or "messenger's guns" from the use of such shotguns on stagecoaches by shotgunmessengers in the American Wild West. The terms "cut-down shotgun" or "messenger's...
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge...
hired in April or May 1880 by Wells Fargo agent Fred J. Dodge as a shotgunmessenger on stagecoaches when they transported Wells Fargo strongboxes.: 54 ...
episode 1957 Tales of Wells Fargo Tad Cameron Season 1/Episode 6 - "ShotgunMessenger" 1957 Tales of Wells Fargo Jackson Season 1/Episode 10 - "Sam Bass"...
" At different times in Arizona, both Wyatt and Morgan worked as shotgunmessengers for Wells Fargo & Co., deputy sheriffs for Pima County, and as deputies...
election he lost due to ballot stuffing, was working as the Wells Fargo shotgunmessenger. He had taken the reins and driver's seat in Contention City because...
not been robbed in several years and thus the coach did not have a shotgunmessenger.: 51 The pair stopped the coach and Boot held a gun on the robbery...
the vehicle, a shotgunmessenger armed with a coach gun might travel as a guard beside him. Thus, the origin of the phrase "riding shotgun". Always a headed...
Kill" Jerry Hopper William Leicester April 22, 1957 (1957-04-22) 6 6 "ShotgunMessenger" Lewis R. Foster Sloan Nibley May 7, 1957 (1957-05-07) Featuring Michael...
known as the Model 97, M97, Riot Gun, or Trench Gun, is a pump-action shotgun with an external hammer and tube magazine manufactured by the Winchester...
Roscoe The Marshal of Gunsight Pass (1950) (Season 1 Episode 15: "ShotgunMessenger") as Deputy Roscoe The Marshal of Gunsight Pass (1950) (Season 1 Episode...
Hills of South Dakota. May was born in Missouri. He was employed as a shotgunmessenger by the Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage & Express Company during the...
popularity. Calamity Jane Calamity Jane 1953 Doris Day Calamity is a shotgunmessenger to the Dakota Territory playing the "tomboy role." Carter Mason Princess...
as sheriff was being contested, Bob Paul worked as a Wells Fargo shotgunmessenger. On March 15, 1881, at 10 p.m., three cowboys attempted to rob a Kinnear...
California (1947) - Stranger (uncredited) The Michigan Kid (1947) - ShotgunMessenger (uncredited) The Sea of Grass (1947) - Brewton Ranch Hand (uncredited)...
Rafael Vaquero as the sheriff of Bisbee Gonzalo Esquiroz as Bill, the shotgunmessenger Ricardo Palacios as the waystation attendant Antonio Cintado as Max...
(as William Green) Frank Pharr as Sheriff Atwood Bill Orisman as ShotgunMessenger Lou Pierce as Elmer (as Lou W. Pierce) Raven as Raven – Calamity's...
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their son, Robert Nesta (whose second given name "Nesta" means "wise messenger"). After Norval's death in 1955, Cedella and Bob moved to Trenchtown,...
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