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Original Title:	Calico Palace
ISBN:	0671824716 (ISBN13: 9780671824716)
Edition Language:	English

Calico Palace Paperback | Pages: 588 pages

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Title	:	Calico Palace
Author	:	Gwen Bristow
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 588 pages
Published	:	March 3rd 1979 by Pocket (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Westerns. Historical Romance

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This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty-niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with the first discovery of gold in 1848, when San Francisco was a village of 900 people. These were the people who went up to the hills and came back staggering under the weight of the treasure they carried, and who began transforming San Francisco from a shantytown into one of the most brilliant cities in the world.

This novel tells the unforgettable story of how these people walked into one of the most spectacular adventures in the world’s history. They saw the first samples of gold brought to the quartermaster, who said they were flakes of yellow mica. They were there when the first people who saw the gold were laughed at and called “crackbrains.” And they laid the foundation of the golden empire before the first forty-niners got there. Some of them could not meet the demands of this strange new world; others grew stronger and shared the greatness of the country they had helped build. Calico Palace is their story brought to vivid life.

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Probably 4 - 4.5 StarsRead and loved this book way back in high school. I've been watching for it at used book sales so I can re-read it. (I'm pretty sure it was a book my grandma loaned to me.)

4 1/2I'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, Kendra, Hiram, Pocket, Lauren and yes, even Ted slightly. But most of all I loved the cat, she was five stars without question.If Kendra was slightly gullible then I must be too, because both of us were

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 explorer and goes adventurer; Marny, the sassy card shark who is her best friend. I have to say the characters are not quite as compelling as Jubilee Trail's but there is still no better portrait of

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--it was fun to read again with new eyes!oops-looks like I mixed up her books--Jubilee trail is about the settling of the LA area--this one is about San Francisco in the early years. Both were excellent

This book got me obsessed with the gold rush. A great historical novel for anyone who is interested in city development and sociology. I wasn't too enthused when I started reading it (for work), but MAN I got into it and went so far as to reserve a PBS gold rush documentary at the library to fill in the gaps. An easy read, cheesy at times, and something I wish I'd read in junior high/high school. The romance is chaste/tame and the "bad girl with a heart of gold" theme rocks my world.

Gwen Bristow's books are so tough, gritty and wonderful. I have enjoyed the two I have read so far and I just got "Celia Garth" in the mail. I love how she takes bad girls and gives them a heart of gold. Sometimes they even turn out to be more kind that the main character. I appreciate greatly how she gets to me to see people as people, despite their shortcomings. I actually slowed down my reading of this book, because I wanted it to last. It is really that much fun. I think it would have been 5

I loved reading about early San Francisco and the changes made by the wealth pouring in from the gold fields. A hundred years later I saw many of the unique features mentioned in the book and another forty years haven't taken away the romance and have added more. One of the great cities of the world, only the hardiest and bravest arrived at its waterfront and from across the mountains and the prairies in those days. The story of some of these individuals give more life and flavor to the already