New Releases by Ray Lewis

Papers document thirty years (1889-1919) of the life of an agricultural implements salesperson, Ray Lewis Badgley. Badgley first worked for his father''s implement store in Lake Odessa, Mich., then joined International Harvester Company. Papers contain catalogs, sales agreements, order books, and installment purchase contracts.

Typescript copy of Lewis Stout''s diary describing his family''s crossing of the plains from Van Buren County, Iowa (April 13, 1852) to Oregon City, Oregon (October 3, 1852); traveling party suffered many hardships, including harassment by Indians, illness and death from cholera, and animal stampede; diary records graves along the trail; additional comments made by Ray Lewis Stout.