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American Buffalo Gold coins

James Earle Fraser was born in Minnesota, in 1876. In 1894, he created the sculpture “The End of the Trail,” which he hoped would be cast in bronze and placed in San Francisco. Fraser worked fo Augustus St. Gaudens. He designed a new nickel coin featuring an American Indian Portrait. The portrait was a composite of three different people: Chief Iron Tail, a Sioux, Chief Two Moons, a Cheyenne, and a third model whose name Fraser was unable to remember,