Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow
Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New York, is leading a proper life, full of elegant parties and polite young men, yet the prospect of actually marrying any of them appeals 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."[This] thrilling picture of the foundation on which our West was built is heartily recommended." --Library Journal
"Garnet's lively curiosity and untrained intelligence, Florinda's dramatic past, and the every day living in what is now history--all have strong, popular appeal." -- Kirkus Reviews
"By its exuberance and occasional rowdiness . . . it hits the time and place." -- Christian Science Monitor
"It is a ripping good tale that deserves resurrection." -- Historical Novels Review
Gwen Bristow (1903-1980) was born in South Carolina, where her family had lived in the seventeenth century. She wrote seven popular historical novels that vividly depict significant episodes in American history, including the siege of Charleston during the American Revolution (Celia Garth) and the great California gold rush (Calico Palace). Bristow worked as a reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune from 1925 to 1934 after graduating from Judson College in Alabama and attending Columbia School of Journalism. She became interested in larger forms of writing, such as novels and screenplays, thanks to her husband, screenwriter Bruce Manning. Bristow's writing career took off after she went to Hollywood, with the release of Deep Summer, the first of a trilogy of Louisiana-set historical novels that also includes The Handsome Road and This Side of Glory. In her bestselling novels Jubilee Trail, which was adapted into a film in 1954, and Golden Dreams, Bristow continued to write about the American South and investigated the colonization of the American West. Tomorrow Is Forever, based on her novel, was made into a film in 1946, starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, and Natalie Wood.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781556526015 |
| ISBN 10 | 1556526016 |
| Title | Jubilee Trail |
| Author | Gwen Bristow |
| Series | Rediscovered Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
| Year published | 2006-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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