Some of the people Garnet meets along the way become strong characters in their own right. Garnet and Oliver marry and set off for the Jubilee Trail, the grueling overland route from Independence, Missouri, to California. He also has no interest in society’s rules of correct behavior. When she meets Oliver Hale, a western trader who is doing business with her banker father, she finds someone whose life piques her imagination. Garnet has learned her lessons in correct behavior well at the academy, though she often finds herself yearning to break free of some of the constraints that have been drilled into her. Jubilee Trail is the story of Garnet Cameron, a young woman from New York City who has just graduated from Miss Wayne’s Select Academy for Young Ladies. Bristow is relatively unknown today, but I hope that the republication of this volume will remedy that. This book, originally published in 1950, is just one of a number of historical novels by Bristow that were bestsellers in their day, some even being made into movies.
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