Laymon, Sherry

Sherry Laymon is a native Arkansan whose books and articles focus on Arkansas, Southern, and American history. She earned a doctorate degree from Arkansas State University in 2005. She is the author of PFEIFFER COUNTRY, published by Butler Center Books, (Little Rock) in April 2009, and FEARLESS: JOHN L MCCLELLAN, UNITED STATES SENATOR, published by Tate Publishing (Mustang, OK) in November 2011. Her articles, JOHN MCCLELLAN AND THE ARKANSAS RIVER NAVIGATION PROJECT and ARKANSAS'S DARK AGES: THE STRUGGLE TO ELECTRIFY ARKANSAS won the Arkansas Historical Association's Violet Gingles Award in 201...