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Where did the term riding shotgun originate from?

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Where did the term riding shotgun originate from?

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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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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.