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successor a new five cent coin to be known as the jefferson nickel since it will have a portrait of thomas jefferson on one side and a replica of his home monticello on the other whether or not the retirement of the buffalo nickels will mean a retirement of rill oil the jokes that have been P ilan 11 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 ell 40 4 0 e 1 I 1 I 1 I ua I 1 t 1 11 A I 1 13 1 I 1 I 1 wi 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 t i 1 I 1 A 4 i I 1 I 1 if 1 1 I 1 k I 1 4 1 K I 1 C I 1 ell I 1 I 1 W I 1 1 x I 1 4 I 1 ik tl S 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 f ak 1 40 1 7 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 F bilk I 1 1 11 0 I 1 1 elli I 1 m t k I 1 A 1 t I 1 I 1 e I 1 i 0 2 1 IN A lr 11 I 1 JL CHIEF IRON TAM TAIL I 1 made about it remains to bo be seen its also a qu question estion whether certain legends that have clustered around this coin will be dispelled or become more firmly fixed in american folklore now that no more examples of I 1 this popular bit of money will be coming from the mint outstanding among these myths is the one that chief two guns white calf of the blackfoot tribe was the original buffalo nickel indian that legend was industriously propagated by frequent reproduction of his picture in newspapers and magazines 1 under some such caption as face you recognize on the buffalo i nickel or youve got go his portrait in your pocket or oi you carry his portrait Per perhaps hapst I 1 or his face Is worth a fo fortune artune in nickels look at the portrait of two guns white calf shown I 1 with the buff buffalo alo st t the head head of this article and you will notice the resemblance 11 11 innumerable tourists who visited glacier national park and saw the Blackfoot chieftain there helped spread the legend and during tho the many trips which ell he c took to various parts of the country I 1 he was invariably photo 1 graphed interviewed advertised and a rid written up as the indian I 1 whose likeness appears on every buffalo nickel AU all of which was interesting if true only it happen to be true As a matter of fact the indian I 1 face on the hucalo nickel is a I 1 composite and somewhat ideal I 1 I 1 S I 1 6 1 f t I 1 kl 1 I 1 iced portrait not of just one red man but several no less a person than the sculptor who designed the coin is the authority for that assertion he Is james earl fraser and in 1931 lie he issued a statement which should have set at rest for all time but didenti the question as to the identity of the original 11 mr fraser said he had used the profiles of three indians for his design chief iron tall tail of the ogallala sioux chief two moons of the northern che and a third whose name he had forgotten many who thought they had seen the buffalo nickel indian original when they visited glacier park chose to believe th that at two guns duns white calf might be the third indian whose name mr fraser had forgotten despite desp it e the fact that the sculptor also said that he had never seen two guns white calf so the legend persisted and when the blackfoot died in I 1 1934 the familiar story with pictures of course blossomed out in full flower again thus proving that error as well as truth when crushed to earth will rise again how did the yarn ever get started anyway its as difficult to trace this legend down to its source as it is to arrive at the beginning of any folk tale perhaps as authentic a version as any is this one furnished by hoke hoka smith western development agent of the great northern railroad to the author of this article several years ago he wrote you asked tor for it I 1 consulted the wages sages of the tribe and here Is the real story of 0 the indian faco aco upon the nickel as near F as I 1 can translate it from the blackf blackfoot Blac kloot 0 abot spoken and sign language many moons ago when he was in his maar e early arly thirties h artles the late chief two guns gun white calf chief of the glacier national park blackfoot tribe got his first nickel fro from m on ono a of the earlier spendthrift to tourists burls t s th that a t c came a me to his tepee koak map it was one of the buffalo series of five cent pieces two guns was delighted with the picture of the buffalo which side happened to be tails up when th the 0 generous tourist put it in the palm of 1 his hand A moment later when he turned the coin over and beheld his own likeness stand ing 1 in n bold relief before him it was as lookin into a mirror to two guns met mel he exclaimed big white chief put warrior on penny but when it come to nickel only chief Is big enough it happened the liberal handed tourist two guns was talking to was a news photographer hoto grapher grabbing some photo tea lea fure ture stuff while visiting the park straightaway he went out and seized the buffalo nickel indian feature and gave it wide circulation while two guns GUM white call calf lived tor for t twenty w r ty years ater after he was hailed by e every v e ry school child in the united states a as the indian whose face appeared on th the e buffalo battalo nickel and there was much controversy throughout the landl land the artist fraser who drew this in than dlan head for the buffalo nickel when put with his back to the wall to decide the controversy replied when I 1 drew the indian face for the buffalo nickel I 1 had no particular indian tn in mind the face on the nickel Is a composite of a mental photograph of oil all american Indian st whew I 1 that was right into the laps lap of the defenders of the idea that two guns white face after all ail since he was the most traveled indian in the united states and consequently during his missionary journeys lourn cys in ex plotting ing the marvelous beauties of the hockles of glacier national park he must have left a greater impression than any other individual indian of recent recen t years eata thus up to the time he diel died a couple of years year ago two guns held the distinction ot of being the most statuesque indian figure in the country and even to this day he la 14 till still regarded as the indian on the nickel nickel notwithstanding th the artl stis disclaimer that no individual ua I 1 indian n dia ever posed for his nickel nackel design out on the reservation all say may Is well two guns certainly was the counterpart of the indian on the buffalo nickel so has come to pass pasi a contro versy over a 4 bac nt nickel kel and an indian which created much argument for nearly the last quarter ot of a century even though Fra erasers sers statement robbed many americans americana ot of their belief that they had seen the original in glacier park the chances are that many of them did see one of the originals many times that Is if they ever attended a wild west show for chief iron tall tail who as a young warrior had fought with his oglala tribesmen in the custer battle and other engagements in the sioux war of 1876 77 was among the indians who traveled with buffalo bill codys clodys wild west in this country and abroad was later with the combined buffalo bill and pawnee bill wild west shows and still later with the miller brothers ranch show during this time the oglala was widely publicized as the true original of the indian on the buffalo nickel but most people dismissed that claim as just another circus press agents yarn even though there was some element clement of truth in it iron tail died in 1916 while on a chicago and northwestern railroad train en route to chicago more notable in frontier history than iron tail was the other original two moons of the As a youth he dis himself by his feats as a warrior against such tribal enemies as the crows the paw nees the shoshones Sho and the gros ventres the opening of the war of 1876 found him the chief of a band of in the powder river country and when the joined their allies the sioux two moons had a conspicuous part in the battle of the rosebud where chief crazy I 1 1 i 1 V 7 I 1 7 r 1 I 1 ak I 1 I 1 1 t 1 lil 4 I 1 I 1 1 al 1 1 s 1 0 I 1 W I 1 T I 1 I 1 4 11 40 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 Y e 1 I 1 01 I 1 1 1 k Z I 1 11 I 1 1 I 1 4 K 0 g I 1 A I 1 I 1 I 1 41 I 1 1 1 N I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 k 1 I 1 I lk I 1 I 1 I 1 11 j I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 CHIEF TWO MOONS horse H orse defeated general crook and an d in the battle of the little bi big i horn where custer ws was killed two moons was in another fa moua battle general macken ales attack on the village of chief chie dull knife of the that tha bitter winter night in 1870 1876 when the power of his tribe was wa broken for all time the next nex spring two moons led his people to fort keogh mont where hi surrendered to gen nelson A miles after tile the close of the in than dlan wars two moons was looked upon n as head chief of the chey ennes enne S and to tile the end of his days day ho he was in leading his peo neo ale in I 1 I 1 tee fl white mans arc road J fi indian on tile the buffalo nickel Is not the only sy symbolical figure on our colas coins which had a prototype in real life the earliest caril est was waa in 1860 when the indian head one cent piece loco was de signed it if you happen to have one of those th ose old stylo style pennies in your pocket take a look at it you dont have to know much about the physiognomy of the red man m a n to realize that the mod el for the head on the coin gasn wasn it an indian the original was a little twelve year old girl named sarah longacre re whose father was the chief engraver a at t the philadelphia nd mint when a compe for the design of a new c copper 0 pl cen cent was announced 10 along lo rig acre decided to enter it one day while his daughter was in his office a delegation of indians from the west visited tho the mint the friendly frici idly manner of the little girl pleased one of the indian chiefs so much that he took off his war bonnet and placed it on her head the effect was so striking that longacre immediately made a sketch of his daughter aughter d wearing the barboric barbaric headdress hubn submitted it in the competition and won the award silver dollar girl the next girl to be immortalized in our coinage was anna williams of philadelphia whose profile was used as the model for the goddess of liberty on the old silver dollars back in 1876 I 1 george morgan an expert designer and engraver was com commissioned to prepare the design for a new silver dollar that was to be minted at philadelphia adelph la when he asked thorn thom as eakins a philadelphia artist to suggest some one who would act as a model for the head on this coin eakins recommended a young girl named anna williams whom he had known while she was an art student as having the most nearly perfect profile that could be found at that time miss williams was waa then principal ot of the girls school at the house of refuge in philadelphia and it was only after much persuasion and the promise that her identity would not bo be made known that she consented to poso for morgan in eakins home she is said to have been a very beautiful girl with fair complexion blue eyes and a grecian nose but her crowning glory was an abundance of golden hair worn in a becoming soft coil this was the most striking feature of tho the first design which morgan made mada but later it was partially concealed by the liberty cap with its sheath and stars for two years the identity of miss liberty on the new silver dollars was kept secret by the artist and officials of the mint then a philadelphia newspaper man revealed the fact that miss williams was the silver dollar girl it immediately she received many offers to go on the stage but she declined all of them preferring to continue teaching for 60 a month at the house of 0 ref uge until 1891 when she accepted the position of teacher of kindergarten philosophy in the girls normal school in her native city among the romantic legends that became associated with the silver dollar girl was one which declared that the designer of the new silver dollar fell in love with his beautiful model and later married her but the fact is that miss williams never married but devoted her life to teaching until she retired in 1924 and died a year or so later at the ago age of sixty eight in later years she was often asked to tell the story of how she came to be the model for miss liberty but she always smilingly referred to it as 14 an incident of my youth and preferred to talk of f her work in the kindergarten schools of philadelphia dA american merican coin girl to one other woman who gained fame because of a coin portrait was miss doris doscher who became known as the american coin girl after she had modeled for the figure on the quarter dollar which was designed by the famous sculptor hermon A macnell she is the girl you see walking down the stairs on the silver 25 cent piece carrying an olive branch signifying peace in her right hand and grasping with her left hand the shield which symbolizes strength on the other side of the quarter is the figure of a flying eagle which incidentally caused ed con considerable sid erable discussion when this new coin appeared macneil showed the eagle with its legs trailing behind it as did augustus saint gaudens designer of the eagle on the new 20 gold pieces which appeared at the same time immediately certain naturalists natura lists cried nature fakel and declared that when an eagle is in flight its legs are tucked up neatly under its breast instead of trailing out behind like a storks legs though not quite so far behind but the philadelphia academy of natural sel sciences and the national art jury which passes on the designs of all American coins said that saint gaudens and macnell macneil were not only great artists but close students of natural history and that the legs ol 01 oh n their eagles were correctly placed so they tile the legs continue to trail |