Mark Twain’s ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’ published 150 years ago today (Nov 18 1865)


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(Saturday, November 18, 1865) — Mark Twain’s first literary success, the original version of his short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” was first published today in The New York Saturday Press under the title “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.”