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Indian Terr - Lee & Reynolds Token :

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Indian Terr - Lee & Reynolds Token :
Obverse: Lee & Reynolds / camp / supply / Ind. Terr.; reserve: good for / one dollar / in merchandise / in our indian / trade. Brass, 25mm. Very good condition.
This token has often been associated with, and should be, Cheyenne. However, Chris Harkey, during her lifetime association with New Mexico history, found definitive records of Lee & Reynolds operating at Fort Craig, where they may have also used this token. In Federal Records of the Dept. of the Missouri at Fort Craig, Harkey found records, copied and supplied with this item, of Lee & Reynolds store at Ft. Craig in April, 1870, and again in 1876-1877 for the "Cheyenne Agency" at the post. This is an important note, as this agency may have served several remote western posts.