FREE: BLACK HAWK "SAUK TRIBE" 1970 HUSKY OIL CO. RUGGED AMERICANS FRANKLIN MINT MEDAL

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BLACK HAWK "SAUK TRIBE" 1970 HUSKY OIL CO. RUGGED AMERICANS FRANKLIN MINT MEDAL

This auction is for 1 BLACK HAWK "THE SAUK TRIBE" MEDAL. Rugged Americans Husky Oil Co. Medal is in perfect proof condition. The one you will receive is unopened & is sealed in airtight cellophane as shown in the picture. Diameter - 26mm bronze medal


Front & Back images are for reference and details only.

The Sauk and Mesquakie Indians were living in the Mississippi valley in the 1820s and 1830s when pioneer settlers began moving west into their hunting grounds. In the summer the Indian men hunted buffalo and elk and bartered for supplies with European traders.



At first the fur trade was good for both the Indians and the Europeans. Eventually, however this trade led to conflicts over land. As these problems increased and pioneer settlers pressed farther toward Indian lands, the U.S. government moved the Indians west. But some refused to move. Chief Black Hawk of the Sauk Tribe resisted moving.


The Franklin Mint COLLECTION OF RUGGED AMERICANS, Proof Set, Presented by Husky Oil 1971, has 13 commemorative "coins" about the size of a quarter with the following names & images (head & shoulders of individuals) on front and back respectively: 1) Geronimo/ The Apache Tribe (bird design), 2) Black Hawk / The Sauk Tribe (teepee), 3) Sitting Bull/ The Sioux Tribe (buffalo), 4) Wild Bill Hickok/ Marshall, Abilene (Lawman Badge Star design), 5) Kit Carson/ K. C. (initials on fringed bag with tomahawk behind), 6) Wyatt Earp/ U. S. Deputy (star)), 7) Bat Masterson/ (top hat & cane), 8) William Clark/ (telescope), 9) Meriwether Lewis/ (surveyor's instrument), 10) Buffalo Bill Cody/ (buffalo head), 11) Sacajawea/ The Shoshone Tribe (pipe with feather), 12) Crazy Horse/ The Oglala Sioux Tribe (feather with ring), and 13) Chief Joseph/ The Nez Perce Tribe (jumping salmon).