Whimsical "Jumping Frog Jubilee" that takes place each year at Angels Camp, in Calaveras county



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One of America's most unusual contests is the 
whimsical
 "Jumping Frog 
Jubilee" that takes place each year at Angels Camp, in Calaveras county
California. And it's all due to a popular short story by Mark Twain. 
by Larry Wood
Rosie has held the 
record for over thirty years. 
Up in the Gold Country of California lies the historic little town of Angels Camp, in 
Calaveras County, that the celebrated American author Mark Twain made world famous 
with his humorous
 "tall tale
", entitled 
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras 
County

(text)

Mark Twain not only wrote the story that soon became an American classic, but he also 
inspired a real jumping frog contest that has become a tradition and almost a legend in 
itself. 
Twain's six page tale -- his first published success -- rapidly established him as an 
American humorist, and it also brought fame to rural Angels Camp, which still has a 
small population of only 2,300 people. 
People come from everywhere in the spring of each year to enter frogs in the 
Calaveras Jumping Frog contest, or to watch other frogs competing for prizes ranging 
from $10 to $1,500. "Jockeying", encouraging your frog to jump as far as he can -- is 
lots of fun for both entrants in the contest and for spectators. The Jumping 
Frog 
Jubilee
-- held every third weekend in May at the Calaveras County Fair -- 
is 
hailed as
one of America's "truly original celebrations".


 Mark Twain in the 1860s. 
All this excitement and fun came about because Samuel Clemens, who wrote under 
the name of Mark Twain, made a trip from San Francisco to the Gold Country to see a 
friend in the year 1860. There he heard the story that he retells so well that the reader 
always laughs, even when he knows the surprise ending. 
Twain relates, with humor typical of the early American West, how 


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