National Frontier Trails Museum
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Independence, MO
This machine is no longer here. The listing stays up because collectors come back years later to check whether the one they remember was real.
From collectors
7/6/24 The Museum moved locations and no longer has pressed penny machine.
The National Frontier Trails Museum is a museum, interpretive center, and research library dedicated to telling the rich history of America’s principle western trails.
One of the most fascinating epics in American History is the story of the overland migrations across the western American wilderness during the mid-nineteenth century. Thousands of wagon trains slowly snaked their way along rugged trails, crossing wind-swept prairies, barren deserts, and formidable mountain ranges. The pioneer adventurers faced storms, mud, swollen rivers, accidents, deserts, choking dust, thirst, deadly plagues, and many other dangers to seek trade, new homes and opportunities in the West. Many did not survive the grueling journey, with tens of thousands of unmarked graves silently guarding the trails today. This extraordinary saga ranks today as the largest voluntary, overland mass migration in the history of the world.
Designs were:
1) (V) Jim Bridger
2) (V) Pioneer Woman
3) (H) Covered wagon and team
4) (H) Bison
Machines and designs
| Machine | Designs | Coin type |
|---|---|---|
| Retired 1 | 4 | Penny |
1 photo from collectors
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