![]() ![]() Calico Palace is their story brought to vivid life. 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. And they laid the foundation of the golden empire before the first forty niners got there. They were there when the first people who saw the gold were laughed at and called crackbrains. Gwen Bristow Celia Garth (The Rediscovered Classics) Audio CD Unabridged, Maby Gwen Bristow (Author) 24 ratings Hardcover 11.25 31 Used from 6.00 Paperback 37.91 5 Used from 41.86 2 New from 37.91 Audio CD 20.99 2 New from 20. They saw the first samples of gold brought to the quartermaster, who said they were flakes of yellow mica. This novel tells the unforgettable story of how these people walked into one of the most spectacular adventures in the world’s history. CELIA GARTH by Gwen Bristow RELEASE DATE: With a record of wide popularity, from Deep Summer in 1937 to Jubilee Trail in 1950, this newest novel, of Charleston in the last years of the Revolution, should have an assured audience. 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 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. ![]()
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