The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New York, is leading a neat, proper life, full of elegant parties and polite young men, yet the prospect of actually marrying any of them appalls her. Yearning for adventure, she instead marries Oliver Hale, a wild trader who is about to cross the mountains and deserts to an unheard-of land called California. During Garnet and Oliver's honeymoon in New Orleans, she meets a dance-hall performer on the lam who calls herself Florinda Grove and is also traveling to California. Along the Jubilee Trail, Garnet and Florinda meet kinds of men never known to them before, and together they make their painstaking way over the harsh trail to Los Angeles, learning how to live without compromise and discover both true friendship and true love.

Jubilee Trail

Literature & Fiction

Bristow, Gwen

Genre Fiction

Popular Library

Not long before the American Revolution, Judith Sheramy, a Puritan girl from New England, rode a flatboat down the Mississippi River with her family. On the river she met an adventurer, Philip Larne -- cavalier and slave smuggler.The story of Judith and Philip is one of struggle - the passionate struggle of their stormy marriage, their struggle from jungle cabin to plantation mansion, and the struggle or revolution. Two abiding passions held them together - their love and their dream of an empire in the Louisiana jungle. When their triumph came it was bitter, menaced always by the hatred of both whites and blacks.

Deep Summer

Pocket_Books

The Handsome Road

Corrie May is determined to lead the luxurious life of Ann Sheramy, a rich plantation owner's daughter

Contemporary

This Side of Glory

The great California gold rush of 1849 is recreated by focusing on the experiences of individual Americans who headed westward, filled with dreams of overnight wealth in the form of gold

Golden Dreams

Teen & Young Adult

Lippincott & Crowell

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.

Calico Palace

Crowell

During the revolution attractive Celia Garth, a seamstress living in Charleston, South Carolina, becomes a spy for Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox

Celia Garth

Thomas Y. Crowell

A Puritan girl is swept off her feet by a southern adventurer

Ty Crowell Co.

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Jubilee Trail

Deep Summer

The Handsome Road

This Side of Glory

Golden Dreams

Calico Palace

Celia Garth

Deep Summer

The Handsome Road

Jubilee Trail