Pfeiffer country :: tenant farms and business activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas, 1902-1954 /

Clay County, Arkansas, was a flatland with little improvements at the outset of the twentieth century. Into this primitive society came a St. Louis entrepreneur with a liking for agriculture. Paul Pfeiffer bought large tracts of land, set up tenant farmers, and reigned for nearly fifty years as a be...

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Main Author: Laymon, Sherry
Corporate Author: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Little Rock, Ark. : Butler Center Books/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2009.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Clay County, Arkansas, was a flatland with little improvements at the outset of the twentieth century. Into this primitive society came a St. Louis entrepreneur with a liking for agriculture. Paul Pfeiffer bought large tracts of land, set up tenant farmers, and reigned for nearly fifty years as a beneficent landlord. Laymon records the gratitude of many a family who remember with appreciation loans made to acquire equipment. When farming was interrupted by the coming of the railroad, both Pfeiffer and his tenants adapted to a lumbering economy-so long as the hardwood forest lasted. Interesting.
Physical Description:1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-221).
ISBN:9781935106418
1935106414

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