Cowgirls in Silver: Ghosts of Cowgirls and the Trails They Never Left Behind.

Cowgirls in Silver
The Cowgirls Who Haunt the Buffalo Nickel
- Volume 5 of the Nickel Souls Series
Ghosts of cowgirls and the trails they never left behind.
Fierce. Feminine. Flame-born.

This volume honors the women of the range who rode hard, spoke little, and endured everything - spirits carved in silver and smoke, wildflowers and grit. Cowgirls in Silver is a spectral tribute to those who watched from fence lines, rode through storms, whispered to crows, and became part of the land they refused to leave behind.

These are not romanticized riders. These are revenants of resolve - women who counted time in hoofbeats and watched the horizon like a vow. Each coin captures a portrait not of legend, but of lived memory: pistols slung low, braids coiled like scars, and eyes that don't look back - they weigh. They endure.

Each page is a spirit carving in the hobo nickel tradition, reimagined with reverence and storytelling. The illustrations blend the macabre and the mythic - fully skeletal portraits etched into the Buffalo Nickel's familiar profile, but haunted by details that speak: fenceposts, wild roses, storm-split skies, and symbols of grit woven through bone.

This isn't just an art book. It's a reckoning.
The cowgirls depicted here never asked for permission.
They carved their own stories. And this book remembers.

Featuring over 30 original black-and-white engravings, Cowgirls in Silver includes poetic meditations and haunting folklore, grounded in a deeper narrative of Western resilience. This volume joins the Nickel Souls series - an ongoing collection of hobo nickel-inspired art books that revive the forgotten figures of the American West in bone, coin, and myth.

Each image is perfect for fans of gothic Americana, vintage coin illustration, tattoo-style Western art, and dark feminine folklore. The engravings serve not only as visual storytelling but also as collectibles for those who appreciate outsider art and historical reinterpretation with soul.

What Is a Hobo Nickel?
And Why Carve These Spirits into Coin?

Born during the early 1900s, especially in the Great Depression, hobo nickels were Buffalo Nickels repurposed by outcasts, drifters, and self-taught artists. These tiny canvases bore skulls, outlaws, rail workers, lovers, and ghosts - each coin a quiet rebellion. They were made with penknives, passed by hand, and traded like secrets.

Nickel Souls reclaims this outsider tradition and expands it.
Here, the coins don't just amuse - they remember.

The cowgirls in this volume aren't fashion or fantasy.
They're the wind through the thornbrush.
The hush at dusk.
The bootprint that didn't fade.

Perfect for fans of:

- Engraving and coin art
- Dark Western folklore
- Macabre beauty and bone iconography
- Feminine myth and ghostly storytelling
- Gothic Western design and cowboy skull illustrations
- Adult black-and-white art collections
- Hobo nickel history and vintage coin carving

Nickel Souls is an original art series by Rustfetish.
Each volume reveals a different facet of the forgotten West -
etched in coin, carved in skull, and remembered in dust.