Nickel Souls: Engraved Lives from the Forgotten West is a haunting art series that transforms Buffalo Nickels into vessels of memory — each coin carved with skulls, symbols, and stories from the edges of American history. Inspired by the Depression-era tradition of hobo nickels, this collection reimagines warriors, dancers, cowgirls, and gamblers not as relics, but as spirits who still linger. Every volume brings forth a different archetype of the forgotten West, honoring lives that were erased from textbooks but remain etched in the land.

Each black-and-white engraving features a skull not as a symbol of death, but of truth — a stripped-down reminder of grit, identity, and endurance. With over 180 original illustrations and poetic meditations, Nickel Souls invites readers into a visual séance where folklore and bone collide. This isn’t nostalgia. It’s reclamation — an illustrated resurrection of the West that history tried to forget, now carved in silver, ink, and shadow.