National Utah Token Society - NUTS Club

It's that time again! Annual Christmas Party is tomorrow December 14th! You know the place! Starts at 6pm. We'll be enjoying food from Famous Dave's BBQ. $20 per adult plate and $10 for 17 and under. Hope to see you there!

Our club meeting will be held tonight Thursday,  October 26th at 7:00PM at the Columbus Community Senior Center, 2531 S. 400 E., Salt Lake City.

This month we are going to have a special guest speaker Charles Mood, the Park Ranger, and Museum Curator at Camp Floyd

Don't forget!!!

Join us tomorrow night! Same time, same place. Hope to see you there

Club BBQ Thursday August 17th, 2023. Fun times!

Be sure to get your club medal orders in by tonight! I'll be submitting the order tomorrow. You can directly email the N.U.T.S email address or respond here or Facebook with your order. Pricing and the design have been posted previously via a link and also emailed out to those on the mailing list

Don't forget!! This week's N.U.T.S meeting is our annual BBQ. Fun times will be had! Be sure to read the flyer to know what you need to bring! See you there

Click the link to put your order in for this year's club medal.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aP7duu2HnXVIEvWRdJXCXI1cs4YWsH-1/view?usp=drivesdk

The link is to our club medal order form for those who can't make the meeting this month and we will also have paper copies available at the meeting

Join us tomorrow evening for this months meeting at the Columbus Senior Center we'll be learning about Civil War relics from Andrew Benson

Join us for this months meeting. We will be having our annual fundraising auction so be sure to bring cash! Same time, same place. See you there!

Don't miss this show! It's gonna be extra special since we'll be joined by The National Token Collectors Association. Same place, same time. Grab some raffle tickets and check out the displays right outside the entrance to the show. Come join us! Be sure to visit the Bottle Show as well. Just in an adjacent building. Real easy to find

Check out this year's winning medal design! Designed by Paul Green.
Come visit with us tonight at our monthly meeting. 7 PM @ the Columbus Senior Center. Hope to see you there!

This month we have the honor of hearing from Drew. He has prepared a really interesting lesson about the coinage during the French Revolution and the changes that happened during the Napoleonic Wars.

Don't forget to put in your design for this year's club medal. We will be voting on them at this meeting!

We are renewing membership this month. Dues are $20 for an individual, $30 for a family, and $10 for an individual youth.

We are meeting Apr. 27th 2023 at 7 PM at the Columbus Community Senior Center, 2531 S. 400 E., Salt Lake City.

See you there!

Hi Everyone,

We are meeting on Feb. 23rd 2023 at 7 PM at the Columbus Community Senior Center, 2531 S. 400 E., Salt Lake City.

We are continuing to renew memberships this month.  Dues are $20 for an individual, $30 for a family, and $10 for an individual youth.

February NUTS Club Prize List
Donated by Glen Beckstead & Todd Monson
Elk Club token #174
Canada One dollar limited edition Stamp & Coin set
J. E Horbaker G/F 10¢  (8 scallop)
2000 - S Proof 65 Deep Cameo
Nugget Token G/F 25¢  In Trade, Weiser, Idaho
1 - Eagle Knife
966 B.P.O.E. Club Token G/F 25¢  In trade
(2) The Ranch SLC Utah Token
Heber mercantile Co. Heber, Utah G/F 10¢ In trade
F.O.E. 264 G/F 5¢ In trade
Seattle World's Fair Token
1 - Coin Grab Bag

Hope to see you there!!!

See you there!!

For January's meeting we will be honored to hear from Drew Whitehead who has prepared the history of the penny in 1100’s England. We are meeting on Jan. 26th 2023 at 7 PM at the Columbus Community Senior Center, 2531 S. 400 E., Salt Lake City.

We are renewing membership this month. Dues are $20 for individual, $30 for family, and $10 for individual youth.

We'll be seeing everyone in a few hours for a delicious dinner from R&R BBQ and great prizes to be won! 6 pm at The Columbus Senior Center!

Christmas is coming up fast!! What's here even faster is our annual N.U.T.S Christmas Party. We will be having delicious BBQ from R & R.

If you want to ensure you get a plate then don't forget to RSVP! Adult = $22 per plate and Children (16 & below) = $11. We hope to see everyone there Dec. 8th starting at 6:00 pm.

Great prizes will be raffled off to those who have earned Christmas raffle tickets through volunteer opportunities. Come join us for fun and food!

Hey all you N.U.T.S out there!

We are meeting tomorrow November 17th at 7pm at the Columbus Community Senior Center, 2531 S. 400 E., Salt Lake City.

At our meeting this month, we are going to be nominating our club officer positions. Please let Wade Frischknecht know if you’re interested. Wade can be contacted at 801-712-3847 or [email protected].

Prizes

Gold, Silver and Tokens
1861 U.S. Seated Dime-Love Token, 1863 Robinson + Ballow Civil War Token,
Bert & Chet Labor Agency Card Room 207 1st So., Madsen Amusement SLC, Utah (Temple Pictorial), Mohrland Merc. Co. G/F 10 Sticks Powder, Horseshoe SLC, Utah, Utah Copper Miners Merc. Co. Bingham, Colorado Club J. Riley, Elks Club Provo Utah, Ogden Cash Coal Co., Utah State Prison, Abraham Lincoln medal and Peace Medal

We would love to see you at the UNS (Utah Numismatic Society) show. If you have any questions we would be happy to help you.

www.nationalutahtokensociety.org

Come join us!!

7pm Thursday September 22nd at the
Columbus Community Senior Center
2531 South 400 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84115

The 40th Anniversary National Utah Token Society Club Medals (“Club Coins”) are now available in limited quantities.

To order, please email [email protected]. You can pay and pickup the medals (coins) at the September meeting (a cost applies if you prefer shipping).

Join us at our annual club BBQ and enjoy some burgers and sloppy joe's with us. Bring a friend to introduce to the club. We'll be meeting at the Sego Lily Pavillion at Sugar House Park.
Basic food assignments for all attendees: Members with a last name starting with A-L bring a salad (your choice) or a bag of chips.
Members with a last name starting with M-Z bring a dessert.
Be sure to bring your metal detectors to join in on the hunt: 1 gram gold bar, 6 peace dollars, and lots of trade tokens!
Hope to see you there!

Thank you so much Drew Whitehead for the fantastic presentation on Hard Times Tokens! Great meeting!

We are meeting tonight at 7PM at the Columbus Community Senior Center, 2531 S. 400 E., Salt Lake City. This month our special guest speaker is Drew Whitehead, talking about "Hard Times" Tokens.

Raffle Prizes

$2½ Pesos Gold coin and more!

Join us next door to the coin and token show and check out some great bottles! Saturday 18th from 9am to 5pm

Come in this Friday and Saturday and visit your favorite booths and buy/trade/sell with dealers from all over the country. Don't forget your tickets for the hourly drawing to win a silver Morgan dollar or go for the gold!

June 17th & 18th 10am to 7 pm both days
Admission is $3 or free for N.U.T.S members. Come join the club and enjoy the perks (Ask for details at the ticket desk)

Our special guest speaker on June 23rd at 7pm is Dr. Steve Lacy. Below is a video of him speaking with Terry Carter about Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. It will be a great evening, we hope you can join us.

https://youtu.be/pTGEhgzm5Rk

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid Truth and proof that Butch and Sundance didn't die in Bolivia. Who their aliases were, where they lived and died and who were their families. The leading res...

Dr. Steve Lacy will be speaking to the club in June. Below is an article in the Millard County Chronicle Progress from April 27th, 2022.

Did Butch Cassidy really live to a ripe, old age?

A longtime Utah history buff and expert on Butch Cassidy has a new book for sale he says contains 10 new photos of the famous outlaw.

Dr. Steve Lacy says his “Last of the Bandit Riders…Revisited Again” is the culmination of 61 years of research that started as a history project when he was in the fourth grade.

Lacy sat down with the Chronicle Progress to discuss his book—it’s an updated version of his 2000 book of the same name—and the findings he says totally obliterates the legend that Cassidy, real name Robert LeRoy Parker, died in South America with cohort the Sundance Kid, real name Harry Longabaugh, in November 1908.

Lacy says he has been able to trace the life of one Frank Ervin, a Fresno, Calif., man who died in 1956, and is convinced he is the real Butch Cassidy. He hopes some of the information he’s uncovered will interest producers of a future History Channel series.

“I taught school for 21 years. I started teaching high school when I was 21 years old. When I first started teaching school, I taught special ed at Emery County High School. But I had a degree in drama and psychology. I taught at Emery County High School for five years. And then went back to Blanding, where I graduated from San Juan High School. I taught two years at San Juan High School, drama and art.

I also taught radio and TV broadcasting. It’s where I did Butch Cassidy radio dramas with my students and where I first met Lula Parker Betenson (Cassidy’s younger sister and author of the 1975 book “Butch Cassidy, My Brother”), who later I found out was my cousin.

We did radio dramas that were heard in five states. We interviewed Butch Cassidy’s sister twice. The first time in June 1975 and then in November 1977.”

There’s some personal history here, too, right? A secret hideout you think was used by the wild Bunch?

“In 1954, my father was out staking uranium claims and building roads…he was grading roads with a grader…and that’s when he found that secret hideout (in Southeastern Utah). There was a magazine under one of the rocks. Somebody wrote on there ‘Wonder who will find this,’ and they signed their name. This was in 1954. He brought that home. We were living in Wellington at the time…that magazine was from the 1890s. My dad couldn’t remember the name, who signed it. I was too little to remember.

Finally in 1984, I talked my dad into going out there. We found it just before sunset. (Lacy believes Butch Cassidy and Elzy Lay spent the winter of 1896 and 1897 at the hideout.)”

At what point did the Cassidy story become more than just a curiosity for you?

“I met Pearl Baker in 1973. She wrote ‘The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost.’ She was a fascinating lady. Her family lived at Robbers Roost…Spending time with her gave me an opportunity to know a lot of the people through her. My students interviewed her on the radio. I also got the chance to meet Joyce Warner, Matt Warner’s daughter. We became very, very close friends. She met Butch on Nov. 21, 1939.

That’s what really brought me to light, finally trying to figure out what happened to Butch.”

How many books have you written?

“Ten total books, only two on Butch Cassidy.”

Why does this story still resonate with people after all these years?

“I think the (1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”) movie generated most of it.”

Describe the most compelling pieces of evidence you’ve encountered in your research.

“The most compelling thing is that there’s 10 new pictures of Butch after South America that match up. You look and you can tell it is Butch. And there’s too many coincidences to prove that Frank Ervin was Butch.”

You also claim you know who the Sundance Kid really was after 1908.

“I know that Hiram BeBee was the Sundance Kid. Everybody says that Hiram BeBee was too short…Well, if you compare Hiram BeBee and Sundance’s father’s pictures when he was in prison, they match up. They almost look like identical twins.”

What separates this version of your book with the one you wrote in 2000?

“Where he (Cassidy) ended up…Before he went to South America, he was working for the railroad, waiting to get amnesty from Utah Gov. Heber M. Wells (the state’s first governor). He didn’t do a bunch of the robberies that people think he did. He was blamed for the Wilcox Train robbery. He was blamed for the Tipton (Wyoming) train robbery. He was blamed for the Castle Gate mine payroll robbery. He was blamed for the Winnemucca, Nevada bank robbery, which he didn’t do.”

Why do you think Frank Ervin took his secret to the grave?

“His last years he spent down in Leeds, Utah…Frank Ervin’s birth date is Aug. 13, 1874. Butch was born April 13, 1866. When you take an alias, and I’ve spent a lot of time looking at outlaws’ aliases and stuff, Butch decided to keep the ‘A’ for April and used August. He kept the 13th because that was actually his birth date. To help him remember what year, he picked his favorite brother, which was William. William was born in 1874.”

How much credit do you give Matt Warner and Joyce Warner for your work?

“The original book was Matt Warner’s history. Matt and Joyce did that. I give Joyce credit because Joyce met Butch and provided me with direction on finding Frank (Ervin).”

You have so much stuff in this book, I imagine it will be attractive to those interested in western lore in general.

“The thing I wanted is it’s like opening an old trunk. You see newspaper clippings, you see telegrams, you see letters. So that you can read and look at the material. There are too many authors who have sources in the back (of their books) and you have to hunt down those sources to find out if it’s true. My book shows you the material. You don’t have to search for it. You’ve got it in front of you.”

Any connections to Millard County that might surprise local readers?

“Butch Cassidy and Matt Warner both went to Millard County and robbed a stage coach when they went over to Frisco (a now-abandoned mining town in Beaver County). They went over there a number of times. What’s next for this story? Will the mystery ever be solved? I think there are home movies. The great-granddaughter didn’t want to be involved, I don’t know why…That would be awesome to have film of Butch Cassidy. We might add a chapter if we do the DNA. We don’t have to dig up Butch. We have grandkids.”

How can people get the book?

“They can call me directly at 801-739-3089. Or they can go to ebornbooks.com and order a copy.

Last of the Bandit Riders… Revisited Again by Dr. Steve Lacy, Matt Warner and Joyce Warner, 378 pages, Eborn Books, retails for $29.99.”

https://millardccp.com/featured-local-news/54-featured-news/6518-q-a-did-butch-cassidy-really-live-to-a-ripe-old-age

Q&A: Did Butch Cassidy really live to a ripe, old age? New book claims 10 new photos of mythical Utah outlaw A longtime Utah history buff and expert on Butch Cassidy has a new book for sale he says...

Don't forget to join us at the meeting tonight! 2531 S 400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 @ 7 pm in the gym. We have the pleasure of hearing from Glenn Beckstead about his years of collecting. Don't forget your finds of the month and bring some money to enter into the raffle for great prizes including some GOLD! See you there!

Watch last months amazing video on marbles. Presentation by Utah's own marble expert Bentsen Moss.

National Utah Token Society - Marble March with Bentsen Moss National Utah Token Society - Marble March with Bentsen Moss

Marbles on marbles on marbles

Join us tomorrow night for our monthly meeting. Bourse night! Bring cash and be prepared to buy, trade or sell or just come for the company and raffle. We will also be voting for this years club medal.
April raffle prizes.
1945 $2½ Pesos Gold coin from Mexico
1943 & 1944 Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Johnson Bros. General Merchant - Huntington, Ut
and more...

Columbus Senior Center 2531 S 400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 @ 7pm

Don't miss out on the coin show this next coming week!!!