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

By Sherry Laymon

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."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098008976X
• ISBN13: 9780980089769
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"