Jubilee Trail, Gwen Bristow
Jubilee Trail, Gwen Bristow
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Jubilee Trail

Author: Gwen Bristow

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 22 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/27/2018


Synopsis

Charting the trail across the Great Plains from New York City to the Mexican Territory of California, a headstrong couple embarks on a new life in this classic work of historical fiction as unforgiving, moving, and unpredictable as the frontier.

A recent finishing school graduate, eighteen-year-old Garnet Cameron is desperate for direction. Too driven for the restrictive manners of the upper class, Garnet is naturally drawn to Oliver Hale, a frontier trader from the West. Unlike the men to whom she's accustomed, Oliver treats Garnet as an equal and respects her independence. His tales of adventure on the plains thrill her. And his proposal of marriage is accepted. Garnet eagerly grabs hold of the promise and prospects of an exciting future, only to discover how ill-prepared she is for the punishing landscape of the Jubilee Trail and the even harsher realities of human nature.

Made into a feature film, Jubilee Trail is a classic novel of a woman in the old West, beloved not only for the rebelliousness and resilience of its heroine, but for its authenticity, its grand sweep, its unsparing intimacy, and its honest portrayal of the survivors and victims—and victors and villains—of a defiant American wilderness.

About Gwen Bristow

Gwen Bristow (1903-1980) wrote a number of bestselling historical novels, including This Side of Glory, Tomorrow Is Forever, Jubilee Trail, Deep Summer, Celia Garth, and Calico Palace.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on May 11, 2019

One of the first adult historical fiction books I ever read, and a book that still fascinates me. Gwen Bristow is not a well-known writer of historical fiction, but she deserves to be: her characters are interesting and flawed, her settings are meticulously researched, and her writing style is as cl......more

Goodreads review by Emma on May 25, 2020

The end of every trail was the start of another; you never knew where you were going, but you had to go all the same. Fascinating. I did not know most of the history presented in this book. I had no idea California and Texas had not originally been American, just that there had been a war with Mexico......more

Goodreads review by Tweety on April 20, 2015

As pretty much everyone can see from my billions of updates on Jubilee Trail I hands down loved it. The story was so simply put over that you never felt like the author was trying to impress you with her knowledge of the times. But I felt like I was there every minute of the way with Garnet. In New......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on April 20, 2008

I thought this book was going to be like many of my grandmother's old books: a cheesy romance novel from the first half of the last century. They're always amusing books because the"romance" part is so mild compared to today's books, and the proper behavior of "ladies" is so hilarious by our standar......more

Goodreads review by Blondish And on September 04, 2019

One of my favorite books, I reread this every year! Read it for the time along with Calico Palace as a teenager, when I was reading everything in sight and it was hard to find “appropriate” books for a preteen/young teenager who read so far above her grade level, lol. Jubilee Trail is an absolutely......more