Calico Palace
A Novel
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4.3 • 58개의 평가
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The New York Times bestseller that brings to life the passionate, adventurous men and women who transformed San Francisco during the California Gold Rush.
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.
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Enjoyably historical fiction
Interesting talk about the California gold rush and the development of San Francisco.
Calico Palace
I can't recommend Gwen Bristow's books highly enough. It is hard to keep in mind that the characters are fictitious and not part of my family; and she presents history with a slant that I have never seen. Pure enjoyment!
Simply Awful
Got about 50 or so pages into it….. dreadful dialogue. “I don’t like you because there are so few women, I like you for you….” Ted had just met Kendra…. JUST MET HER and it’s the 1840’s.
Seriously.
I closed the book.
Don’t waste your money. Or tine.