Riding shotgun was used to describe the guard who rode alongside a stagecoach driver, ready to use his shotgun to ward off bandits or hostile Native Americans. The expression is derived from "shotgun messenger", a colloquial term for "express messenger", when stagecoach travel was popular during the American Wild West and the Colonial period in Australia. The person rode alongside the driver. The first known use of the phrase "riding shotgun" was in the 1905 novel The Sunset Trail by Alfred Henry Lewis.
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Riding blunderbuss referred to a stagecoach guard riding beside the driver and armed with a blunderbuss to discourage attack by bandits or brownskins. Rekek took the job with Havv for one trip from Dodge City to Newtown.[1]
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- ↑ Straight Outta Dodge City, pgs. 71-72.
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