10 TOP WELLS FARGO GUARDS AND SLEUTHS
1 Pilsbury “Chips” Hodgkins was among Wells Fargo’s longest-serving employees, hiring on in Gold Rush California in 1853, serving 20 years as a messenger and retiring in 1891, a year before his death.
2 Henry Johnson, among Wells Fargo’s first detectives, served out of the company’s San Francisco headquarters from 1857 to 1871.
3 Daniel C. Gay, a California Gold Rush gunfighter and Wells Fargo detective, shot and killed three stage robbers in two separate holdup attempts in 1860.
4 “Shotgun Jimmy” Brown started as a Pony Express rider, then rode as a shotgun guard for Ben Holladay’s Overland Mail in the 1860s and, finally, for Wells Fargo from 1870 to 1883. In his most famous exploit he shot and killed Nevada stage and train robber Andrew Jackson “Big Jack” Davis in 1877.
led one of the most adventurous lives of any frontiersman. A key member of John Wesley’s Powell’s first expedition down the Colorado River in 1869, he was murdered by stage robbers in 1882 near Globe, Arizona Territory, while guarding a
