Calico Palace, Gwen Bristow
Calico Palace, Gwen Bristow
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Calico Palace

Author: Gwen Bristow

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 20 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/12/2017


Synopsis

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. Marny arrives from Honolulu to set up a gambling hall. 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.

As 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. 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.

Thrilling and rich in authentic historical detail, Calico Palace is first-rate historical fiction that informs and entertains.

About Gwen Bristow

Gwen Bristow (1903-1980) wrote a number of bestselling historical novels, including This Side of Glory, Tomorrow Is Forever, Jubilee Trail, Deep Summer, Celia Garth, and Calico Palace.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tweety on April 20, 2015

4 1/2 I'm a bit torn with this one, I loved Jubilee Trail for its adventure and it's characters. This book was just as good and as much as I hate to be disloyal to Jubilee Trail, I do think this book wrapped up better. I loved getting to know the background story to the characters. I liked Marny, Ken......more

Goodreads review by Doris on October 23, 2009

I just pulled this one out of my garage for a reread. I forgot what a great book it was. I love historical fiction and love how clean the old authors used to write. This one is about the trek from the East to settle California--the first time I read it I had no idea the Cajon Pass was a real place--......more

Goodreads review by Kate on October 21, 2009

This book is Gwen Bristow's nominal sequel to "Jubilee Trail" - that is, it features different characters, but is set in the 1848 California Gold Rush, which is just where Jubilee Trail left off. Many of the characters are similar to Jubilee Trail's - Kendra, a well-bred girl who marries a Gold Rush......more