I love these pictures of Twain, Bret Harte and old S.F. Many people don’t realize that Twain earned his fame out West, and spent a lot of time in San Francisco and in and around Lake Tahoe (before it was called that). His famous jumping frog story, which made him a literary star, took place in Calaveras County in N. California.
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True that he used popular language, the way people actually spoke. Which scandalized the Victorians, gave them the vapors.