Calico Palace - Softcover
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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Gwen Bristow (1903–1980) wrote a number of bestselling historical novels, including This Side of Glory, Tomorrow Is Forever, Jubilee Trail, Celia Garth, and Golden Dreams.
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- PublisherPocket
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0671824716
- ISBN 13 9780671824716
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages588
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Calico Palace
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Pocket Books
(1979)
ISBN 10: 0671824716
ISBN 13: 9780671824716
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Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 7" tall pocket paperback. Dirtiness to cover. Bottom front creased. Light bumping along edges and corners of cover. Cover is partially detached from pages (should be easy to glue). Pages are tight; clean/unmarked. 580 pages. Small area at top where book was exposed to moisture. Very light staining to top edge pages 273 - 439. Most pages are stained. No print date for this book but stated 17th printing. Book is better than a "reading-only" copy but it is not in collectible condition. Seller Inventory # 2209014
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