Yellowstone Centennial Bronze Medals, Buffalo Postcards/Nickels,Osborne Russell

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Yellowstone Centennial Bronze Medals, Buffalo Postcards, Buffalo Nickels,
Osborne
Russell
Quote
A memento of Forrest Fenn's Thrill of the Chase (Small Frame)
This 19"W x 16"H (image size 16"W x 13"H) framed memento of the search for Forrest Fenn’s treasure is focused on Yellowstone National Park and includes the following:
Two bronze Yellowstone medallions from the 1972 National Parks Centennial series designed by Frank Hagel and sold by Roche Jaune, Inc. (Keystone, and Colter Explores the Yellowstone)
Two 1930 Buffalo nickels (the year of Forrest's birth, his favorite animal, and symbolic of Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, my “home of Brown”)
Two vintage Yellowstone postcards from the early 20th century, depicting a Buffalo Stampede in the Lamar Valley and the American Bison Bull
A vintage bronze/brass skeleton key (symbolic of the poem’s “word that is key”)
A scanned copy of an 1835 quote about the Lamar Valley near Tower Junction from the handwritten 1914 manuscript of Osborne Russell’s book "Journal of a Trapper”
Framed in a knotty Pine wood frame from Montana, acid free conservation quality mats, and a 99% UV filtering, non-glare, acrylic panel
The handwritten quote from Osborne Russell’s book “Journal of a Trapper” reads as follows:
“We stopped at this place and for my own part I almost wished I could spend the remainder of my days in a place like this where happiness and contentment seemed to reign in wild romantic splendor surrounded by majestic battlements which seemed to support the heavens and shut out all hostile intruders.”
(30 July 1835, describing the Lamar Valley near Tower Junction, Yellowstone National Park)
1 frame is available now and others can be built upon request. The postcards are attached using photo corners so that they can be easily replaced. If you prefer a different set of Yellowstone postcards, let me know what you are looking for and I'll let you know if I have them available. Otherwise, everything will be as shown with slight variations in the color or condition of the arrowhead, key, and medallions.