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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8241956, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1933 Wolfville Western Days</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Bronze So-Called Dollar HK-689</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b><font size="5">38mm</font></b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450846[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1450847[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From what I gather, there was a celebration in Tucson Arizona commemorating the old Western Days in 1933.</p><p>There was a rodeo and a jamboree and apparently some gambling with these so-called dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From a newspaper clipping April 17, 1965 </i></p><p><i>in the Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450850[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Alfred Henry Lewis (1855-1914) published a trio of books.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Wolfville</b> (1897)</p><p><b>Wolfville Days</b> (1902)</p><p>and </p><p><b>Wolfville Nights</b> (1902)</p><p><br /></p><p>I also found a book titled</p><p><b>Wolfville Folks </b>(1908)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450851[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Each is a collection of sketches set in a fictional frontier settlement in the Arizona desert. Ominously called Wolfville, it was no doubt meant to emulate the very real town of Tombstone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Illustrations by <b>Frederic Remington</b> are found throughout these books. I show one below.</p><p>I recognized the reverse of the medal as his style and did the research to discover these books and the Author.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450852[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Apparently the design on the reverse is similar to this illustration found in one of these books, only from a different angle with a few differences in pose.</p><p>So there is a connection between this medal and the books and Frederic Remington as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>1933 Wolfville Western Days</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Bronze One Bit Token</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b><font size="5">29mm</font></b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>[ATTACH=full]1450853[/ATTACH] </b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450854[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A quite scarce encountered token or gambling chip.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a <b>&quot;One Bit&quot;</b> from Wolfville Western Days. </p><p>Although there is very little to no information available about these &quot;One Bit&quot; tokens, the font and design is remarkably similar to that of the Wolfville Western Days One Dollar.</p><p>This may have been a smaller denomination for making change with the larger dollar.</p><p>These are said to have been used in gambling and were used as &quot;chips&quot; instead of money to get around the law.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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