TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laymon,Sherry
ED  - Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
TI  - Pfeiffer country: tenant farms and business activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas, 1902-1954 
SN  - 9781935106418
AV  - F417.C54 L394 2009eb
U1  - 976.7/995053092 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Little Rock, Ark.
PB  - Butler Center Books/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
KW  - Pfeiffer, Paul Mark,
KW  - Landowners
KW  - Arkansas
KW  - Clay County
KW  - Biography
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - Farm life
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Farm tenancy
KW  - Tenant farmers
KW  - Propriétaires fonciers
KW  - Clay
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Hommes d'affaires
KW  - Vie à la ferme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Baux ruraux
KW  - Métayers
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Clay County (Ark.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-221); Clay County: Arkansas's frontier. Native Americans in the Mississippi Valley ; Spanish imprints in the future Arkansas delta ; French culture in the delta ; Transportation, river travel ; Earthquakes ... ; Religion ; Creation of Clay County ; Railroad debut in Northeast Arkansas ; Second migration to Clay County ; Clay County homesteads -- Cotton fields in Clay County -- Pfeiffers in Piggott -- Pfeiffer farm structures -- Pfeiffer farming operations -- Liquidation of Pfeiffer Farms
N2  - 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
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