riding shotgun

[Sam Clements]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>


> All over the web there are sites that suggest that "riding shotgun" was
> wagon behavior -

> It would be interesting to know what date the term started being used for
> that sense.
>
> Bethany

All over the web there are sites that claim T.A.Dorgan invented the term
"hot dog."  <sigh>

The phrase "riding shotgun" started being used in the 1939 movie
_Stagecoach_ unless someone comes up with an antedating.

SC