Dear Mad'm relates the adventures and misadventures of a delightful lady who decided - at the age of 80, mind you - to go off by herself and manage a placer mine in the north California mountains for a year. Stella Walthal Patterson was one of those people possessed of a rare zest for life. When she figured she still had 'young legs' at her age, well, by golly, she was going to find some way to use them. And besides, she'd didn't know how to live in the mountains. Yet.
The woman had a good sense of humor as well as a sense of adventure. This is a spunky, funny read, straight out of the 1950s.
It's still in print, in a 1982 edition published by Naturegraph, ISBN 0879611316. The front jacket copy says, "The refreshing adventures of a woman who at the age of eighty found a new life in the wilds of the Siskiyou Mountains near Happy Camp, California."
Dear Mad'm
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I was playing around with Technorati.Com tonight and found your site after searching for "Siskiyou". Looks like a good one - since I love books! I live in Happy Camp, the town in the book - and it's a surprise to see someone talking about it!
Welcome!
Any time you read about a book on this blog, feel free to recommend similar or related books in the comments section. I'm here to learn as much as to pass along what I've learned. Keep it suitable for mixed company, of course, but otherwise I'm pretty wide open.
By the way, by following Linda's link, I wound up (after a jump and a skip or two) at www.happycampnews.com, which had a nice "Recommended Reading" column at the end of the page. I don't know if that's a regular feature, but you booklovers out there might want to check it out, especially if you're interested in regional books.
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