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The house where Mark Twain resided.
Here he conceived The Leaping Frog of Calaveras County, which established his career as a writer.
"It was a hallowed spot in the literary geography of the Far West: 'the headquarters of all Bohemians visiting the mountains,' in the words of Twain's friend Dan de Quille."
-- The Bohemians by Ben Tarnoff
"It was a hallowed spot in the literary geography of the Far West: 'the headquarters of all Bohemians visiting the mountains,' in the words of Twain's friend Dan de Quille."
-- The Bohemians by Ben Tarnoff