Pfeiffer Country

The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas, 1902-1954

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Butler Centre for Arkansas Studies

Published:28th Feb '10

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Northeast Arkansas is transformed by tenant farmers and lumbermen. 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. Interestingly, Laymon's account includes the fate of tenants following the break-up of 'Pfeiffer Country'.

"Readers will benefit from this excellent examination of a visionary Arkansan, a man whose vision improved one part of Arkansas in the first half of the Twentieth Century." - Clyde A. Milner II, Arkansas State University"

ISBN: 9780980089769

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