Jubilee trail
"In 1844 a fashionable young lady of New York was leading a neat, proper life. She went to elegant parties given by her mother's friends. She met polite young men, and everybody expected that she would marry one of them. The prospect appalled Garnet Cameron, full of life and yearning for adventure. No wonder Oliver Hale, with his tanned face and unruly sandy hair, who seemed too big for her mother's dainty parlor, stirred her imagination and won her heart. Oliver was a trader. Every year he made the trek over the Jubilee Trail from California to Santa Fe, crossing the mountains and deserts by mule train. This year he had come to New York to buy goods, and next summer he was going to take the trail back to California. Here, surely was all the adventure Garnet could want. The excitement began with their honeymoon in New Orleans. Oliver took her everywhere, even to the exotic theater called the Flower Garden. It was here that Garnet met the astonishing Florinda, whose destiny was closer to her own than she guessed. When Garnet reached Santa Fe she met men like John Ives, and Silky, and Texas - men such as she had never known before. They became principal figures in the life that lay ahead of her. She was with them when the mule train fought its way back over the harsh trail to Los Angeles and fate wove its surprising web around her." blurb on inside front cover
Print Book, English, 1950
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1950