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Angels Hotel - View from Northwest
Photographer: Andrew Ruppenstein
Taken: February 20, 2009
Caption: Angels Hotel - View from Northwest
Additional Description: It was here at the bar that one night early in 1865 bartender Ben Coon told Mark Twain the story of a man and a jumping frog. Twain turned this into "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog". The story proved popular, and was reworked and published as the famous "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
Submitted: April 5, 2009, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p58299
File Size: 0.495 Megabytes

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