Wells Fargo "coach guns" are available at any gun show. How you get one is you find any hammer shotgun that's had the barrels sawed off, you buy a set of cheap die stamps and add the wording, they you price it like it's some great collectible rarity.
I went to a gun show a couple weeks ago and there were three in the room, all claimed to be original, none had any ounce of provenance. If you wanted a sawed off Parker to shoot for cowboy action then you've got a good one, if you wanted an authentic piece of history you got taken more than likely.
In all the running around I've done messing with guns since I was a kid I've seen exactly one Wells Fargo gun that had provenance. It included the invoice where the company had sold it off at an excess property auction. The gun was a cheap belgian made hammer gun with standard length barrels. I've always thought the whole sawed off coach gun thing was something created by Hollywood and there was the proof.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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