Where did the term riding shotgun originate from?
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NikonRob Goodbye
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I always figured from the old wagon train days. I pictured one guy driving the carriage and another next to him with a shotgun in case anybody tried to mess with 'em.
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I was thinking stagecoach.
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Its the person riding either behind the stagecoach driver, or beside the driver in the old west shows. Now days it is used to depict sitting in the passenger seat in the front of the car.
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I think it was when the horse-drawn carrages rode through the desert, a guy with a shotgun sat next to the drive in case they where attacked.
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The guy in the shotgun seat is able to give shotgun hits off the joint to the driver. Actually, QueenR has the correct answer.
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Really listen to this song. It really don't totally answer your question but it is funny. :-) The very end of the song is the most important words of the song!
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What QueenR said i believe, also the popos keep a shotgun in their car and the passenger seated popo operates it.
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The term was used alot during the Pony Express,the guy sitting up top next to the drive carryed a shotgun to protect the cargo.
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From the stagecoaches in the west. There was a driver and a shotgun security man. His job was to protect the stagecoach from holdups.
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Wells Fargo stage coaches. The guy beside the driver had a shotgun to ward of pirates. They might not have called it "riding shotgun" back then, but later on through popular depictions of them in the media the term grew in populariIty.
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