Lafaille Lillian (2 results)

Square duodecimo, softbound (stiff, cream, illustrated wrappers), v, 118 pp. Very Good+, with a hint of edgewear. From Foreword: These are the memoirs and other tales of a country lady who has lived most of her eighty-three years in Pilot Hill and Cool, rural Gold Country communities which are gradually changing as El Dorado County grows each year. Lillian Lafaille treats her memoirs gently. growing up in Pilot Hill's historic Bayley House in the early 1900s, moving into Cool to become a rancher's wife, raising two children, driving tractors, pitching hay, picking pears and helping husband Ray run their 75 head of cattle. and on to a kind retirement in the same farmhouse that was home for 40 years. Mrs. Lafaille has added to her own memories tales of country life in the Mother Lode, created from real people and real events plus a dash of imagination and an abiding sense of humor about her own quietly rich years. Read, and enjoy an hour or two in the Foothills of not-so-long-ago. Gentle reader, meet gentle writer. California, El Dorado County, Pilot Hill, Americana, Cool, Highway 193, U.S.-iana, American History, U. S. History, American Biography zslic.…

Soft cover. Second edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 118 pps.