Pfeiffer Country : The 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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Auteur principal: Laymon, Sherry
Collectivité auteur: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Little Rock, Ark. : Butler Center Books/Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2009.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Pfeiffer, Paul Mark, > 1868-1944.
Tenant farmers.
Rural conditions.
Manners and customs.
Landowners.
Farm tenancy.
Farm life.
Businessmen.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Metayers > Arkansas > Clay > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Baux ruraux > Arkansas > Clay > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vie à la ferme > Arkansas > Clay > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Hommes d'affaires > Arkansas > Clay > Biographies.
Proprietaires fonciers > Arkansas > Clay > Biographies.
Tenant farmers > Arkansas > Clay County > History > 20th century.
Farm tenancy > Arkansas > Clay County > History > 20th century.
Farm life > Arkansas > Clay County > History > 20th century.
Businessmen > Arkansas > Clay County > Biography.
Landowners > Arkansas > Clay County > Biography.
Arkansas > Clay County.
Clay County (Ark.) > History.
Clay County (Ark.) > Biography.
Clay County (Ark.) > Rural conditions.
Clay County (Ark.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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