FREE: CHIEF JOSEPH NEZ PERCES 1970 HUSKY OIL CO. RUGGED AMERICANS FRANKLIN MINT MEDAL

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CHIEF JOSEPH "THE NEZ PERCES TRIBE" 1970 HUSKY OIL CO. RUGGED AMERICANS FRANKLIN MINT MEDAL

This auction is for 1 CHIEF JOSEPH "THE NEZ PERCES 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.


Chief Joseph 1840-1904

Chief Joseph was born around 1840 in the Wallowa Valley of what is now northeastern Oregon. His given name was Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, meaning "Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain." However, he was widely known as Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, because his father had taken the Christian name Joseph when he was baptized at the Lapwai mission by Henry Spalding in 1838. Under Joseph the Elder's leadership, the powerful Nez Percé tribe was friendly to whites and Joseph the Younger was educated at a mission school.

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).