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At the top of a location called Jackass Hill is the Mark Twain Cabin. The turn off is very easy to miss and quite steep in the mountains. The area has really grown on me and it saddens me that I am away from it currently. But its one of those wholesome areas the type where you just want to find the right girl raise your kids and have a picnic atop of the hill.

Everybody knows of Mark Twain also known as Samuel Clemens. This was a nice find I was at the time looking for houses in my favorite town in California called Sonora and stumbled upon this accidentally. The cabin belonged to the Gillis Brothers named William and James along with a mining partner Dick Stoker. It was very small considering 3 men and a cat named Tom Quartz shared it.

Mark Twain spent three months here from Dec. 1864 to March of 1865. As their guest he went mining to try to strike it rich, toured some of the local towns and sat around the fireplace sharing tales of his journeys. During his stay he heard a story of the jumping frog while at a saloon in Angels Camp. Angels Camp is a small town in the hills I seen the prettiest blond girl that smiled at me during my tour of it back in April of 2008. Mark Twain made notes and drew sketches for his story in this cabin and later wrote a short story about the jumping frog which is what brought him world wide fame.

The present cabin you see is actually a replica of the Gillis Cabin which was burned down by a fire. It was restored and rebuilt in 1922 under the supervision of Bill Gillis who led the builders to the original cabin site where the foundation once stood. He directed them so that the cabin would look the same way. The fieldstone fireplace is said to be the original that the replica was built around.

Their is a real dismal feeling atop of the hill its hard to explain. The cabin is in complete seclusion although their are a few houses in the woods most of the old wagons and antiques surround the area scattered like a tornado hit it. I would like to work with this area more as it is not only historical but a natural wonder as you can see from the photos.

In 2005 The Sonora Sunrise Rotary Club restored the cabin once again due to the elements taking effect. The cabin is wide open....made of wood....its not very sturdy that is why they keep a fence around it.

The cabin sits along an old wagon trail where at one time 200 jackasses would carry supplies for the miners in the area. which included even gold. Back in the day everything was done by jack ass and horse. Nearby was the railroad where the miners would come in and leave.

Its a beautiful area with alot of history and lore just glad we get to share it with our fans. What is even more strange is just a few years ago while I was up in Buffalo NY someone showed me the Mark Twain House. Years later I am on an opposite coast and I find accidentally the Mark Twain Cabin. It is truly amazing how some of our explorations intertwine no matter how far away we travel.

California's Mark Twain Cabin Nearly Destroyed by Fire

What is believed to have been a brushfire in California's Tuolumne County threatened 200 buildings, including the cabin where Sam Clemens sketched out the short story that brought him to prominence, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

Thankfully, firefighters got the blaze completely contained late Tuesday night, and expect it to be fully extinguished by Thursday, according to the Union Democrat.

Although technically not the same cabin (the original was burned down in 1922 and an exact replica was built on the spot using the original foundation, fireplace and chimney), the cabin nevertheless is cherished by the folks in the surrounding area. During his days of trying his luck at gold mining, Twain stayed there with friends from December 1864 to March 1865. Although he was unsuccessful at striking it rich, the young writer did happen to hear the story of the jumping frog in a local bar in the nearby town of Angels Camp. The notes he took in the cabin formed the basis for the story he would later publish.

The New York Times, June 11, 1922

TWAIN'S CABIN DEDICATED.
California Quarters Occupied by Author When Seeking Gold Restored.

SONORA, Cal., June 10. - The Mark Twain memorial cabin at Jackass Hill, near here, was dedicated today, with Governor William D. Stephens delivering the dedicatory address. Twain slept and ate in the cabin, which has been restored, during the time he prospected for gold in California. He gave up prospecting and left this district in 1865.

The Governor recited events of Twain's arrival at Jackass Hill in December 1864, his prospecting days, and his life in the cabin, which has been restored by William J. Loring, President of the American Mining Congress.

"The beginning of Twain's career of making men's tasks easier to bear," the Governor said, "is indelibly associated with his days in the mining country of Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties. In his cabin the sick were made well and the well made better as the result of his cheerfulness and humor."

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as the author Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. His parents, John and Jane Clemens, moved their family to Hannibal, Missouri, in 1839, four years after Samuel was born. Living in Hannibal, a port along the Mississippi River, Clemens developed a sort of bond with the river and as a child aspired to one day be a steamboat pilot. After his father's death in 1847, Clemens began an apprenticeship with Joseph Ament, publisher of the Missouri Courier, and by age 16 he worked as a printer and contributed his first published sketches for his brother Orion's Hannibal Western Union where he worked for the next two years. After this, Clemens went on to work as a printer in several other cities including Philadelphia and New York City. In 1857 Clemens began working as a cub pilot on Mississippi River steamboats and received his steamboat pilot license in 1859. For the next two years Twain worked as a steamboat pilot until 1861 when the American Civil was put a stop to travel on the river. Clemens volunteered in the Confederate Calvary for a very brief period of time. Samuel joined his brother Orion that same year, and headed out west to the Nevada territory where he mined for silver. In 1862, he began working as a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in Nevada. It was in 1863 that Samuel Clemens began using the pen name Mark Twain. The name was a phrased used on the steamboats of the Mississippi River which meant "two fathoms deep." From Nevada, Clemens moved on to San Francisco, California, where he wrote for San Francisco newspapers. He also worked in mines at Angel's Camp, California, where heard the tale that inspired his short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." In 1866, Clemens gave his first lecture about the Sandwich islands. After this he began a lecture tour throughout California and Nevada and went on to give lectures in New York City during the next year.

From June to November of 1867, Clemens sailed on a ship called the Quaker City to Europe and the Mideast. He writes of his travels in his book The Innocents Abroad. After arriving back in the United States, he moved to Washington, D.C., to become the private secretary to Senator William Stewart. During this time he also traveled and gave lectures in California and Nevada. In 1868, Twain became engaged to Olivia Langdon, and in 1870 they married in Elmira, New York. The couple lived in Buffalo, New York, where Clemens worked as an editor and writer for the Buffalo Express. Shortly after the couple moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where Clemens wrote most of his best work. In 1872, Clemens published his book Roughing It, the tale of his life as a miner and jounalist in Nevada and California. This same year his daughter Susy Clemens was born. Clemens also traveled and gave lectures in England where he met writers such as Robert Browning and Lewis Caroll. In 1874 his second Daughter, Clara Clemens, was born. Tom Sawyer, one of Twain's most recognized works, was published in 1876. For the next few years Clemens traveled in Europe with his family. He and his family returned to Hartford in 1879, and in 1880 his daughter Jean was born. A Tramp Abroad, which describes his trip through the Black Forest of Germany and the Swiss Alps, was published in 1880. A year later The Prince and the Pauper was published. Clemens wrote about his life as a steamboat pilot in Life on the Mississippi which was published in 1883. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, considered to be Twain's masterpiece, was published in 1884, the same year he formed Charles L. Webster and Company to publish works of his own as well as other writers. The company went bankrupt in 1894 due to a bad investment in an automatic typesetting machine.

With the death of his wife and two daughters, Twain's work grew more and more pessimistic. During the 1890s and the 1900s he wrote Pudd'nhead Wilson, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and The War Prayer. He also wrote several essays and began writing The Mysterious Stranger and an autobiogrophy which were never completed. Before he died Twain received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University. Although most of Twain's contemporaries only recognized him as a humorist, Twain is given credit today for transforming American literature into something purely American by his original use of language, setting, and colorful American characters.


	At the top of a location called Jackass Hill is the Mark Twain Cabin. The turn off is very easy to miss and quite steep in the mountains. The area has really grown on me and it saddens me that I am away from it currently. But its one of those wholesome areas the type where you just want to find the right girl raise your kids and have a picnic atop of the hill. Everybody knows of Mark Twain also known as Samuel Clemens. This was a nice find I was at the time looking for houses in my favorite town in California called Sonora and stumbled upon this accidentally. The cabin belonged to the Gillis Brothers named William and James along with a mining partner Dick Stoker. It was very small considering 3 men and a cat named Tom Quartz shared it. Mark Twain spent three months here from Dec. 1864 to March of 1865. As their guest he went mining to try to strike it rich, toured some of the local towns and sat around the fireplace sharing tales of his journeys. During his stay he heard a story of the jumping frog while at a saloon in Angels Camp. Angels Camp is a small town in the hills I seen the prettiest blond girl that smiled at me during my tour of it back in April of 2008. Mark Twain made notes and drew sketches for his story in this cabin and later wrote a short story about the jumping frog which is what brought him world wide fame. The present cabin you see is actually a replica of the Gillis Cabin which was burned down by a fire. It was restored and rebuilt in 1922 under the supervision of Bill Gillis who led the builders to the original cabin site where the foundation once stood. He directed them so that the cabin would look the same way. The fieldstone fireplace is said to be the original that the replica was built around. Their is a real dismal feeling atop of the hill its hard to explain. The cabin is in complete seclusion although their are a few houses in the woods most of the old wagons and antiques surround the area scattered like a tornado hit it. I would like to work with this area more as it is not only historical but a natural wonder as you can see from the photos. In 2005 The Sonora Sunrise Rotary Club restored the cabin once again due to the elements taking effect. The cabin is wide open....made of wood....its not very sturdy that is why they keep a fence around it. The cabin sits along an old wagon trail where at one time 200 jackasses would carry supplies for the miners in the area. which included even gold. Back in the day everything was done by jack ass and horse. Nearby was the railroad where the miners would come in and leave. Its a beautiful area with alot of history and lore just glad we get to share it with our fans. What is even more strange is just a few years ago while I was up in Buffalo NY someone showed me the Mark Twain House. Years later I am on an opposite coast and I find accidentally the Mark Twain Cabin. It is truly amazing how some of our explorations intertwine no matter how far away we travel. © By Rick-AngelOfThyNight California's Mark Twain Cabin Nearly Destroyed by Fire What is believed to have been a brushfire in California's Tuolumne County threatened 200 buildings, including the cabin where Sam Clemens sketched out the short story that brought him to prominence, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Thankfully, firefighters got the blaze completely contained late Tuesday night, and expect it to be fully extinguished by Thursday, according to the Union Democrat. Although technically not the same cabin (the original was burned down in 1922 and an exact replica was built on the spot using the original foundation, fireplace and chimney), the cabin nevertheless is cherished by the folks in the surrounding area. During his days of trying his luck at gold mining, Twain stayed there with friends from December 1864 to March 1865. Although he was unsuccessful at striking it rich, the young writer did happen to hear the story of the jumping frog in a local bar in the nearby town of Angels Camp. The notes he took in the cabin formed the basis for the story he would later publish. The New York Times, June 11, 1922 TWAIN'S CABIN DEDICATED. California Quarters Occupied by Author When Seeking Gold Restored. SONORA, Cal., June 10. - The Mark Twain memorial cabin at Jackass Hill, near here, was dedicated today, with Governor William D. Stephens delivering the dedicatory address. Twain slept and ate in the cabin, which has been restored, during the time he prospected for gold in California. He gave up prospecting and left this district in 1865. The Governor recited events of Twain's arrival at Jackass Hill in December 1864, his prospecting days, and his life in the cabin, which has been restored by William J. Loring, President of the American Mining Congress. "The beginning of Twain's career of making men's tasks easier to bear," the Governor said, "is indelibly associated with his days in the mining country of Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties. In his cabin the sick were made well and the well made better as the result of his cheerfulness and humor." A Brief History Of Mark Twain http://www.easylit.com/marktwain/twainhistory.htm Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as the author Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. His parents, John and Jane Clemens, moved their family to Hannibal, Missouri, in 1839, four years after Samuel was born. Living in Hannibal, a port along the Mississippi River, Clemens developed a sort of bond with the river and as a child aspired to one day be a steamboat pilot. After his father's death in 1847, Clemens began an apprenticeship with Joseph Ament, publisher of the Missouri Courier, and by age 16 he worked as a printer and contributed his first published sketches for his brother Orion's Hannibal Western Union where he worked for the next two years. After this, Clemens went on to work as a printer in several other cities including Philadelphia and New York City. In 1857 Clemens began working as a cub pilot on Mississippi River steamboats and received his steamboat pilot license in 1859. For the next two years Twain worked as a steamboat pilot until 1861 when the American Civil was put a stop to travel on the river. Clemens volunteered in the Confederate Calvary for a very brief period of time. Samuel joined his brother Orion that same year, and headed out west to the Nevada territory where he mined for silver. In 1862, he began working as a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in Nevada. It was in 1863 that Samuel Clemens began using the pen name Mark Twain. The name was a phrased used on the steamboats of the Mississippi River which meant "two fathoms deep." From Nevada, Clemens moved on to San Francisco, California, where he wrote for San Francisco newspapers. He also worked in mines at Angel's Camp, California, where heard the tale that inspired his short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." In 1866, Clemens gave his first lecture about the Sandwich islands. After this he began a lecture tour throughout California and Nevada and went on to give lectures in New York City during the next year. From June to November of 1867, Clemens sailed on a ship called the Quaker City to Europe and the Mideast. He writes of his travels in his book The Innocents Abroad. After arriving back in the United States, he moved to Washington, D.C., to become the private secretary to Senator William Stewart. During this time he also traveled and gave lectures in California and Nevada. In 1868, Twain became engaged to Olivia Langdon, and in 1870 they married in Elmira, New York. The couple lived in Buffalo, New York, where Clemens worked as an editor and writer for the Buffalo Express. Shortly after the couple moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where Clemens wrote most of his best work. In 1872, Clemens published his book Roughing It, the tale of his life as a miner and jounalist in Nevada and California. This same year his daughter Susy Clemens was born. Clemens also traveled and gave lectures in England where he met writers such as Robert Browning and Lewis Caroll. In 1874 his second Daughter, Clara Clemens, was born. Tom Sawyer, one of Twain's most recognized works, was published in 1876. For the next few years Clemens traveled in Europe with his family. He and his family returned to Hartford in 1879, and in 1880 his daughter Jean was born. A Tramp Abroad, which describes his trip through the Black Forest of Germany and the Swiss Alps, was published in 1880. A year later The Prince and the Pauper was published. Clemens wrote about his life as a steamboat pilot in Life on the Mississippi which was published in 1883. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, considered to be Twain's masterpiece, was published in 1884, the same year he formed Charles L. Webster and Company to publish works of his own as well as other writers. The company went bankrupt in 1894 due to a bad investment in an automatic typesetting machine. With the death of his wife and two daughters, Twain's work grew more and more pessimistic. During the 1890s and the 1900s he wrote Pudd'nhead Wilson, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and The War Prayer. He also wrote several essays and began writing The Mysterious Stranger and an autobiogrophy which were never completed. Before he died Twain received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University. Although most of Twain's contemporaries only recognized him as a humorist, Twain is given credit today for transforming American literature into something purely American by his original use of language, setting, and colorful American characters.





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California's Mark Twain Cabin Nearly Destroyed by Fire

The New York Times, June 11, 1922