Indian Summer: Traditional Life among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley

Thomas Jefferson Mayfield;
 Introduction by Malcolm Margolin

New edition of a Heyday classic

With accuracy, zest, and insight, Indian Summer portrays the nearly lost and unspeakably beautiful world of the Choinumne Yokuts and the valley in which they lived.

Reviews

"A fascinating, personal visit to another world."—Tri Valley Herald

"Indian Summer is a fascinating record of the beauty and biological diversity that the San Joaquin Valley has lost and the equally tragic loss of most of its indigenous people."—Wilderness Record

About the Author

Thomas Jefferson Mayfield was born in Texas in 1844 and moved to California at the age of six. In 1862, he moved to Visalia, California to attend school. After retirement, Mayfield returned to the San Joaquin Valley and spent his last years in the small town, Tailholt. He died in 1928.

Malcolm Margolin is publisher of Heyday Books and author of several books on California history, including The Ohlone Way and The Way We Lived.