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Pfeiffer Country [electronic resource] : The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas, 1902-1954 / Sherry Laymon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laymon, Sherry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tenant farmers--Arkansas--Clay County--History--20th century.
- Tenant farmers.
- Farm tenancy--Arkansas--Clay County--History--20th century.
- Farm tenancy.
- Farm life--Arkansas--Clay County--History--20th century.
- Farm life.
- Businessmen--Arkansas--Clay County--Biography.
- Businessmen.
- Landowners--Arkansas--Clay County--Biography.
- Landowners.
- Clay County (Ark.)--History.
- Clay County (Ark.).
- Clay County (Ark.)--Biography.
- Clay County (Ark.)--Rural conditions.
- Clay County (Ark.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Pfeiffer, Paul Mark, 1868-1944.
- Pfeiffer, Paul Mark.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Little Rock, Arkansas : Butler Center Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; I. Introduction; II. 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 Create Sunk Lands and Enlarge the Swamp; Religion-Clay County; Creation of Clay County; Railroad Debut in Northeast Arkansas; Second Migration to Clay County; Clay County Homesteads in the Early Twentieth Century; III. Cotton Fields in Clay County; IV.Pfeiffers in Piggott; V. Pfeiffer Farm Structures; Vernacular Architecture in the Arkansas Delta
- Pfeiffer Farm StructuresThe Layout of the Farmstead; VI. Pfeiffer Farming Operations; The Great Depression Era, New Deal Politics, and the Drought; VII. Liquidation of Pfeiffer Farms; Changes in Agriculture after Pfeiffer's Death; Notes; Bibliography; Unpublished Materials; Oral Interviews and Personal Communications; Newspapers; Public and Legal Documents; Internet Websites; Published Books and Articles; Appendices; I. Paul Pfeiffer's Land Transactions in Butler County, Iowa; II. Paul and Gus Pfeiffer's Land Transactions in Butler County, Iowa
- III. Bushels of Crops Produced in Clay County, 1880 - 1910IV. Pfeiffer Land Purchases and Sales, 1914 - 1919; V. Pfeiffer Land Transactions, 1920 - 1928; VI. Crops in Clay County, 1910 - 1930; VII. Farms in Clay County, 1910 - 1930; VIII. Pfeiffer's Land Transactions, 1931 - 1938; IX. Paul Pfeiffer Land Sales, 1939 - 1943 ; X. Karl Pfeiffer Land Transactions, 1944 - 1954; XI. Farm Statistics in Clay County, 1930 - 1950; XII. Trend Toward Mechanization in Clay County; XIII. Last Will and Testament of Paul Pfeiffer; XIV. Last Will and Testament of Mary Pfeiffer
- XV. Sale of Pfeiffer Property by Paul Pfeiffer (Ordered by Date of Purchase)XVI. Sale of Pfeiffer Property by Karl Pfeiffer
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-221).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-935106-41-4
- OCLC:
- 898477165
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