Tailholt Tales by Frank F. Latta

Published by Bear State Books [Latta Family Press], Santa Cruz, CA, 1976. First edition, as indicated by the number line starting at 1. SIGNED by the Latta Family Trust for the California Dept of Fish and Wildlife, in the authors hand on the half title page. Illustrated by Joe Rodriquez. Hardbound in avocado green cloth with embossed green printing on the front cover and spine, 10.25" x 7.25", green end papers, 323 pages. Illustrated throughout with historic b&w photographs. VERY GOOD Condition: just some light signs of age and use, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. With Publisher's prospectus sheet laid-in.

Details the life of Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, a white pioneer raised by the Yokuts Indians in central California, offering a firsthand account of their culture and his 19th century life in the San Joaquin Valley, specifically in the area known as Tailholt or White River in southern Tulare County, and on the Kings River, south of Fresno, California. Great ethnographic material.

Frank Forrest Latta (1892-1983) California historian and ethnographer of the Yokuts people. He also wrote histories of the early European-American settlement of the San Joaquin Valley.