Thrilling and rich in authentic historical detail, Calico Palace is first-rate historical fiction that informs and entertains. Jubilee Trail, Deep Summer, Celia Garth, and Calico Palace. Yet Kendra and Marny’s lives stay centered on the Calico Palace, the little gambling operation in a tent in Shiny Gulch that becomes the most opulent gambling house in California. Shop the latest titles by Gwen Bristow at Alibris including hardcovers, paperbacks. Neither expects to be swept up in one of history’s greatest adventures, which begins when tiny flakes of gold are discovered in the California hills.Īs both young women follow their dreams into the mining camps and back to a rapidly growing San Francisco, they encounter ambitious settlers, sailors, miners, ranchers, and mysterious drifters, men who will offer them love or friendship or will break their hearts. Marny arrives from Honolulu to set up a gambling hall.

Sarge (Goodreads Author) Shelves > Free Online > 282928 Aethers Claim Rate this book An Impossible Attraction 6.4. Kendra comes to San Francisco, a sleepy town of nine hundred people, because her stepfather, an army colonel, is charged with overseeing its defenses during the Mexican War. Calico Palace ( Rediscovered Classics) Gwen Bristow Louder Than Sirens, Louder Than Bells (ebook) by K.D.

The New York Times bestseller that brings to life the passionate, adventurous men and women who transformed San Francisco during the California Gold Rush. Publication Order of Standalone Novels Tomorrow is Forever, (1943) Jubilee Trail, (1950) Celia Garth, (1959) Calico Palace, (1970) Golden Dreams, (1980).

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