Wells Fargo Stagecoach Gun

This is the Wells Fargo Double Barrel Stagecoach Gun. Founded in 1852 just after the California Gold Rush, Wells Fargo became a lifeline of a growing nation. People needed a safe, reliable way to move gold, money, and mail across a lawless frontier. And that's where the Wells Fargo Double Barrel Stagecoach Gun came in. Picture it. In the 1860s, a stagecoach rumbling across the open plains, outlaws waiting in the brush, no radios, no reinforcements, just a driver, a messenger, and that shotgun.

This is where the phrase "riding shotgun" was born. The man beside the driver wasn't there for conversation, he was there for protection. He represented law order and honor in a land where both were in short supply.