Mark Twain Cabin

This site served as a stopping place for packers carrying supplies to miners, and often two hundred jackasses stayed on the hill overnight, furnishing a concert that suggested the name Jackass Hill. Very coarse gold was found here, with $10,000 taken from one hundred square feet of ground, and quartz was found containing three-quarters of its total weight in gold. Mark Twain, Steve, Jim and Bill Gilis, and Dick Stoker, the “Dick Baker” in “Roughing It,” were cronies, and Mark wrote here “Jumping Frog of Calaveras” from notes made at Angels Camp Tavern.

Tuttletown, California · United States