Cover of Calico palace

Calico palace

by Gwen Bristow

1970 589 pages eng

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. T…

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