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 The Front page of booklet for "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"... "Can A CON CON a CON?" "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Twain describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to--to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road." Image File history File links Jumping_frog1. ...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humanist,[2] humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. ...
The Angels Hotel, in Angels Camp, California was the hotel where the author Mark Twain heard a story that he would later turn into his short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. ...
Angels Camp, also known as City of Angels, is the only incorporated city in Calaveras County, California. ...
Plot Summary
Jim Smiley was addicted to gambling. He bet on anything from the death of Parson Walker's wife to fights between his bulldog pup, Andrew Jackson, and other dogs. One day a stranger to the town agreed to bet on a frog jumping higher than Jim's frog, Daniel Webster. When Jim wasn't looking the stranger poured a quail shot into Daniel Webster's mouth making it impossible for him to jump at all. The stranger won the $40 bet and escaped before Jim realized the con.
Trivia
 California red-legged frog - The frog of the title, named Daniel Webster, is believed to be a California red-legged frog (Rana aurora).[1]
- Upon discovering a copy of this story translated into French, Twain translated it, word-for-word, back into English, keeping the French grammar structure, ending it with a note "Such is the Jumping Frog, to the distorted French eye" [2]
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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852), was a leading American statesman during the nations antebellum era. ...
Binomial name The California Red-legged frog (Rana aurora ) is a sub-species of frog within the family Ranidae also known as the true frogs. It was earlier classified as a subspecies, Rana aurora draytonii, of the Red-legged Frog, but in current times is considered a recognized species in...
Adaptation Lukas Foss composed The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, an opera in two scenes with libretto by Jean Karsavina, based on Twain's story. The opera premiered on May 18, 1950, at Indiana University. [3] Lukas Foss (born Lukas Fuchs, August 15, 1922 in Berlin, Germany) is an American composer and conductor. ...
References - ^ Division of Endangered Species: The California Red-legged Frog. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ The Jumping Frog. Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
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See also Frog jumping is a competitive sport, of sorts, where frogs compete to jump certain distances. ...
External links Wikisource has original text related to this article: - Online text at the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library
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| Works by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) | | Novels: | General Washington's Negro Body-Servant • My Late Senatorial Secretaryship • The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors • The Prince and the Pauper • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court • The American Claimant • Tom Sawyer Abroad • Pudd'nhead Wilson • Tom Sawyer, Detective • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc • A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany • A Dog's Tale • The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • A Horse's Tale • The Mysterious Stranger Image File history File links Wikisource-logo. ...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humanist,[2] humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. ...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River in St. ...
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The Prince and the Pauper was first published in 1881 in Canada before its 1882 publication in the united states. ...
Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. ...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. ...
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. ...
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Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany is an earnest satire by Mark Twain. ...
The Mysterious Stranger is an unfinished work written by the American author Mark Twain that was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until his death in 1910. ...
| | Short stories: | "Advice for Little Girls" • "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" • "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" • "The War Prayer" • "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" • "A Literary Nightmare" • "Luck" Humorous short story written by Mark Twain in 1867. ...
The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. ...
Wikisource has original text related to this article: The War Prayer The War Prayer, a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. ...
Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. ...
A Literary Nightmare is a short story written by Mark Twain in 1876. ...
Luck is an 1886 short story by Mark Twain which was first published in 1891 in Harpers Magazine. ...
| | Short story collections: | Sketches New and Old • A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime • Punch, Brothers, Punch! and other Sketches • Merry Tales • The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories • Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance • Letters from the Earth Sketches New and Old is a group of fictional stories by Mark Twain. ...
The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories is a 1893 collection of short stories by American writer Mark Twain. ...
Mark Twains (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance This short volume, published by Sheldon in 1871, is Mark Twains third book. ...
Letters from the Earth is one of Mark Twains posthumously published works. ...
| | Essays: | How to Tell a Story and Other Essays • Christian Science A series of essays by Twain which describe his own writing style, attack the idiocy of a fellow author, defend the virtue of a dead woman, and try to protect ordinary citizens from insult by railroad conductors. ...
Published in 1907, Christian Science by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is a highly critical essay on the beliefs of Christian Scientists. ...
| | Non fiction: | The Innocents Abroad • Memoranda (monthly column) • Roughing It • Old Times on the Mississippi • A Tramp Abroad • Life on the Mississippi • Following the Equator • What Is Man? • Is Shakespeare Dead? • Queen Victoria's Jubilee • Mark Twain's Autobiography • Mark Twain's Notebook • King Leopold's Soliloquy • The Private History of a Campaign That Failed • Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War • The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood Innocents Abroad cover The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims Progress was published by American author Mark Twain in 1869. ...
Roughing It is a semi-non-fiction work written by American author Mark Twain. ...
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. ...
A Tramp Abroad was a work of non-fiction travel literature published by American author Mark Twain in 1880. ...
Life on the Mississippi cover Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. ...
Following the Equator is basically a tour of the British Empire undertaken by Mark Twain as a response to regain his financial status and extricate himself from debt incurred from his failed investment in the revolutionary typesetting machine. ...
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Cover of the first edition Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. ...
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, Mark Twain’s Autobiography was a two volume set and was purposely published over ten years after the authors death in order to protect the “guilty. ...
King Leopolds Soliloquy is a 1905 pamphlet by Mark Twain. ...
The Private History of a Campaign that Failed is one of Mark Twains sketches (1885), a short memoir of a two-week stint as a Confederate irregular in the West. ...
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