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Author: William Downs Jr. Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 1557286892 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
Book Description
Through dozens of in-depth interviews representing all sections of the state, farm families recall their best times, their worst times, and day-to-day experiences such as chores, washing, bathing, clothes making, medical care, home remedies, spiritual life, courtship and marriage, and school experiences. Their stories reveal how ordinary men and women, frequently living in abject poverty, endured cataclysmic natural disasters and economic collapse with extraordinary courage, faith, resourcefulness, and a good sense of humor.
Author: William Downs Jr. Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 1557286892 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
Book Description
Through dozens of in-depth interviews representing all sections of the state, farm families recall their best times, their worst times, and day-to-day experiences such as chores, washing, bathing, clothes making, medical care, home remedies, spiritual life, courtship and marriage, and school experiences. Their stories reveal how ordinary men and women, frequently living in abject poverty, endured cataclysmic natural disasters and economic collapse with extraordinary courage, faith, resourcefulness, and a good sense of humor.
Author: Sherry Laymon Publisher: Butler Center Books ISBN: 098008976X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
"Paul Pfeiffer left his comfortable life in Saint Louis, Missouri. He left his prosperous business along the mighty Mississippi: the information super-highway of his day. Fancy restaurants would no longer be a part of his life. He would no longer entertain the elite of a great metropolis. He left all of that behind when he moved to the bottomlands of Eastern Arkansas in 1902. If he did so to make a difference in the lives of thousands of poor farmers, then he made the mark he intended. Pfeiffer came to own much of Clay County, Arkansas. He joined a much-disliked strata of American society: landowners whose 'sharecroppers' were often helpless to improve their lot, or that of their children. But Paul Pfeiffer did make a difference in the lives of those who paid him in-kind to work his land. He eschewed the usual cycle of poverty for his workers, eventually giving them the land they worked. He was a soul who lived--and fashioned the lives of others--several generations 'ahead of his time.'"-- Back cover.
Author: William Downs Jr.
Author: William Downs Jr.
Author: Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
Author: Marguerite Evans Dent Eiland
Author: Ralph H. Desmarais
Author: University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus). Agricultural Extension Service
Author: Sherry Laymon
Author: St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company
Author: 
Author: University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus). Agricultural Extension Service
Author: Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation