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- Riding Shotgun is the story of Gerry McAvoy's life before, with and since Rory Gallagher. But it's also a story about a group of young musicians growing up amid the madness that was Belfast during the Troubles.
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Apr 13, 2004 · Though disdained by marksmen, the shotgun was the weapon of choice among pony express riders and stagecoach guards – indeed, in the late 1880s and early 1890s, an express messenger was called a “shotgun messenger.” A shotgun scattered pellets, making it easy to hit your target at short range.
"Riding shotgun" was a phrase used to describe the bodyguard who rides alongside a stagecoach driver, typically armed with a break-action shotgun, called a coach gun, to ward off bandits or hostile Native Americans.
It purports to tell the true story of the Reno Brothers, an outlaw gang which terrorized the American Midwest, particularly Southern Indiana, in the period immediately following the American Civil War.
Aug 6, 2021 · 2 Wells, Fargo & Co. was a U.S. transportation company founded in 1852 by the businessmen Henry Wells (1805-1878), William Fargo (1818-1881) and others. In extended use, the phrase to ride shotgun has come to mean to accompany, to escort, especially in to ride shotgun on somebody.
After being left for dead, Delong escapes to warn the townspeople of an imminent raid by the outlaws. They don't believe his story and, in fact, accuse him of complicity in the stage robbery, tasking the town's remaining deputy with arresting him.
This 1954 film, directed by André De Toth, is based on a short story by Kenneth Taylor Perkins from 1942. Here's a short clip featuring actor Randolph Scott riding shotgun as Larry Delong on a stagecoach destined for Deepwater.
In the last year, I’d been working every stage line between Canada and Mexico, riding shotgun. I knew that sooner or later my path would again cross that of the man I wanted – Dan Marady”. This Marady is a ruthless outlaw played by the always reliable James Millican.
