1. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

2.  Born 1835  Took on the pseudonym Mark Twain after spending time working on steamboats (a common thread in many of his works)  Wrote his first published work in 1865  The Official Website of Mark Twain. Estate of Mark Twain. Web. 15 Nov 2012..

3.  Twain’s first published work 1865  Published in the New York Saturday Press  Story centers on a mining camp in California  Examines the discrepancy between educated East and working class, undereducated West  Uses satire and dialect to tell the story  The Official Website of Mark Twain. Estate of Mark Twain. Web. 15 Nov 2012..

4.  Mining ◦ Popular in the West in the 1800’s (in California San Francisco reached fever pitch around 1849; San Francisco 49’s or miner 49er) ◦ Didn’t need an education to get started and many families travelled west to pursue riches (to be found in mining)  Andrew Jackson ◦ 7 th President of the United States of America ◦ Known for his fighting (notably in the War of 1812, but also any scrap he could find if someone wronged him)

5.  Daniel Webster 1782-1852 ◦ Representative and Senator ◦ Secretary of State under three presidents ◦ Fierce personality and an opponent of Andrew Jackson ◦ http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index= W000238