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Mark Twain's frog rediscovered in county

Submitted by Sloane DellOrto on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 15:43.

The California red-legged frog, made famous in Mark Twain’s 1865 "The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County" but feared absent from the county by 1969, was rediscovered in 2003.

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  • Too many men!

    In 1850, at the height of the Gold Rush, there were 62 males for every female in Calaveras County. By 1860, the ratio was just over 6:1.

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