1953 Bowman Frontier Days trading cards tell the story of the wild west with 128 cards featuring action packed artwork.
The artwork for this set was borrowed from the 1949 Bowman Wild West series, though that set contained 52 more cards than Frontier Days. To accommodate for the differing dimensions of the two sets, Frontier Days include a wider border on the short ends of the cards which is filled in with a relevant line drawing — guns, bow and arrows, rope, etc.
The recycling of artwork from an earlier set not yet five years old is usually believed to be a last ditch effort to earn revenue by releasing a set with minimal overhead costs. Bowman would be bought out by Topps just two years later.
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1953 Bowman Frontier Days Checklist
Base Set – 128 Cards
ACC# – R701-5
1 | Pike’s Peak or Bust |
2 | Chicago Fire |
3 | False Face Society |
4 | White Bear |
5 | Perilous Work |
6 | Killer Bear |
7 | Wells Fargo Holdup |
8 | Riding Out an Earthquake |
9 | Relay |
10 | Montana Gold |
11 | Buffalo Trap |
12 | Red Cloud |
13 | Hayfield Fight |
14 | Look! The Stagecoach |
15 | Citizens Rout Bandits |
16 | Heroic Captain |
17 | Hazards of Track Laying |
18 | Snowbound Train |
19 | Fishing for Salmon |
20 | Simon Kenton |
21 | Death by Moonlight |
22 | Cowboy Capers |
23 | Whip Beats Pistol |
24 | Tornado |
25 | Peril at the Pass |
26 | Bridge Disaster |
27 | Indian Lacrosse |
28 | Andrew Jackson |
29 | Wagon Box Fight |
30 | Night Visitors |
31 | Jesse James Holdup |
32 | The “Mosselle” Blows Up |
33 | Indians Attack Wagon Train |
34 | Prairie Fire |
35 | An Indian Never Forgets |
36 | Daniel Boone |
37 | Battle of Tippecanoe |
38 | Bronco Busting |
39 | Jail Break |
40 | Wreck of the “Tennessee” |
41 | Fremont in the Rockies |
42 | Buffalo Stampede |
43 | The War Whoop |
44 | Captain Jack |
45 | Ransom |
46 | Branding a Calf |
47 | Bill Hickok at Hays City |
48 | Stratagem |
49 | Death at the Waterhole |
50 | The Alamo |
51 | Smoke Signals |
52 | Buffalo Bill |
53 | Burnt-Arrow Punishment |
54 | Pony in the Parlor |
55 | Deputy Sheriff |
56 | River Pirate |
57 | Battle of New Orleans |
58 | Lone-Star Settlers |
59 | Sign Language |
60 | Calamity Jane |
61 | Boy Captives |
62 | Cowboys Go to Town |
63 | The Daltons |
64 | Villains’ Cave |
65 | Out to Stake a Claim |
66 | Virginia City Boom |
67 | Building Birch Bark Canoe |
68 | Sam Houston |
69 | Saving the Wounded |
70 | Battle of Wild Stallions |
71 | Run Out of Town |
72 | Seeing the Show |
73 | The Gold Rush Is On |
74 | Dealing with Claim-Jumpers |
75 | Young Indian Learns |
76 | Chief Joseph |
77 | Rushing a Stockade |
78 | Range War |
79 | Two-Gun Marshal |
80 | Hark! The Calliope |
81 | Gun Runners |
82 | James Marshall Strikes Gold |
83 | Peace Pipe |
84 | Annie Oakley |
85 | Escaping the Comanches |
86 | Fighting a Blizzard |
87 | Outlaws at Bay |
88 | Steamboat Burns Bridge |
89 | Battling a Tempest |
90 | Mormons Settle Utah |
91 | Stalking Game |
92 | Davy Crockett |
93 | Battle of Horseshoe Bend |
94 | Stampede |
95 | Sheriff Defies Mob |
96 | Cub Pilot |
97 | Buffaloes Stop Train |
98 | Down Goes the Telegraph |
99 | The Medicine Man |
100 | Sitting Bull |
101 | Fort Kearny Massacre |
102 | Sheep and Cattle War |
103 | Rangers Chase Apaches |
104 | Steamboat Race |
105 | Indians Attack Iron Horse |
106 | Train Robbery |
107 | Torture Stake |
108 | Geronimo |
109 | Angry Squaw |
110 | Chuck Wagon |
111 | Rangers Battle Outlaws |
112 | The River Rises |
113 | Stage Coach Robbery |
114 | Ambush |
115 | Cliff Dwellers |
116 | Marcus Whitman |
117 | In the Nick of Time |
118 | Cowgirl Race |
119 | Rangers Ride |
120 | Rifles at 30 Yards |
121 | Panning Gold |
122 | Saddling Pony Express |
123 | Woman’s Work |
124 | Black Hawk |
125 | Battle Of Bad Axe |
126 | An Easterner Learns |
127 | Stick ‘Em Up |
128 | New Orleans Bullfight |