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Photographs, slides, and negatives documenting the Cryts’ involvement with the American Agriculture Movement, the Ristine grain elevator, the 1986 and 1988 8th Congressional District campaigns, the 1992 and 1996 United States Presidential Campaigns, and the promotion of One Man with Courage: The Wayne Cryts’ Story. Records date from 1978 to 2007. Series is arranged by subject, then chronologically.

Abstract

Correspondence, newspapers, photographs, and legislative materials pertaining to Wayne and Sandy Cryts, a Puxico, Missouri couple who made national headlines in 1981 when they defied federal law and reclaimed their soybeans stored at the Ristine Grain Elevator in New Madrid, Missouri, after a federal bankruptcy court confiscated their beans to pay-off the debts of Ristine’s owners.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, newspapers, photographs, and legislative materials pertaining to Wayne and Sandy Cryts, a Puxico, Missouri couple who made national headlines in 1981 when they defied federal law and reclaimed their soybeans stored at the Ristine Grain Elevator in New Madrid, Missouri, after a federal bankruptcy court confiscated their beans to pay-off the debts of the grain elevator’s owners. Materials are organized into series by record type or function. Series include One Man with Courage:...