The Melvin E. Lewis papers. 1970-2004.

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The Melvin E. Lewis papers. 1970-2004.

Lewis' autobiography, poems, and a number of brief photo essays about the American West.

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Lewis, Melvin B.

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Melvin Lewis was born in 1917 on a ranch near Mt. Shasta, Calif. He worked as a private gamekeeper, a truck driver, a laborer with the Civilian Conservation Corps, a fire fighter for the California State Forestry Service, and as an Army Air Corps pilot in the Pacific during World War II. Following the war, he was a camera salesman for Standard Optical in Utah and Idaho before becoming an engineer for Ingersoll Rand from 1947 to 1985. From the description of The Melvin E. Lewis papers...

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