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Wyatt was hired in April or May 1880 by Wells Fargo agent Fred J. Dodge as a shotgun messenger on stagecoaches when they transported Wells Fargo strongboxes. [ 69 ] : 54 [ 73 ] In late July 1880 younger brother Morgan arrived, leaving his wife Lou in Temescal, California (near San Bernardino). [ 74 ]
He stated “Wells Fargo may have run a ‘trunk route’ off the Butterfield [Trail] in LA [Los Angeles] but it was NOT Butterfield per se.” [9] The line was very expensive and cost $3,500,000 to build and maintain. [10] Some of the money was borrowed from the banks of express companies such as Adams Express and Wells, Fargo & Co. Express.
The terms "cut-down shotgun" or "messenger's gun" were coined in the 1860s when Wells Fargo & Co. assigned shotgun messengers to guard its shipments on stagecoaches in California. The company issued shotguns to its guards for defense. [2] The guard was called a shotgun messenger although the phrase riding shotgun was not coined until 1919. [3]
Wells, Fargo & Co. changed its name to Wells, Fargo and Company and was approved by the stockholders on December 10, 1866. Wells, Fargo and Company bought out Ben Holladay and was finally operating as a mail carrying stage company, with their name finally on a transom rail of a stagecoach, on the Central Overland Trail.
The Wells-Jackson Carriage House Complex is a well-preserved complex of estate outbuildings at 192-194 Jackson Court and 370 Maple Street in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Built in 1901 as part of a larger estate, the complex includes a carriage house, tack house, and coachman's quarters of a quality unrivaled in the state.
In the early 1840s, Wells & Fargo employee Ramsay MacKay comes upon a broken-down carriage in the countryside and gives belle Justine Pryor and her mother a lift into Buffalo, New York, though he warns them he is in a hurry to make a delivery of fresh oysters.
Frederick J. Dodge (August 29, 1854 — December 16, 1938) was an undercover Wells Fargo detective, a constable in Tombstone, Arizona, and a Texas cattleman.He was born in Spring Valley in northern Butte County, California and was raised in Sacramento.
A coach horse or coacher bred for drawing a coach is typically heavier than a saddle horse and exhibits good style and action. [21]: 71-74 Breeds have included: Cleveland Bay [21]: 161 Postier Breton: The lighter of the two subtypes of Breton [22]: 90 German coach: large, rather coarse, harness horse; bay, brown or black in color. [23]