The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Samuel Clemens - or Mark Twain - came to California in May of 1864 arriving in San Francisco. Later that year he lived in Angel's Camp where he mined for a time. It was in Angel's Camp that he heard the story of the Jumping Frog. He sent the story East and it was first published Novenber 18 1865 in the <em>New York Saturday Press</em>. Immediately popular it was reprinted on December 16 1865 in the <em>Californian</em> and was on its way to becoming the story of the year.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The story was reprinted by Twain in 1875 as The Jumping Frog and this book is a reprint of the 1875 edition. The book contains all the original illustrations and in addition a number of contemporary wood engravings showing daily life of miners in the region.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The book actually contains two versions of the story: a straightforward telling of the story followed by a hilarious version that Twain says is a retranslation of the story as it had appeared in a French publication but clawed back from the French into a civilized language.</strong></p>