The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” published in New York weekly, The Saturday Press – the title they chose was “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” A Life 154 Sam had sent it to Ward hoping it could be in his book but it’s publisher George W. Carleton, forwarded the submission to Henry Clapp, […]
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Maguire gets into trouble
has very public disagreements in the press with the Polish actress and opera singer Felicita Vestvali
Sam tries to sell family land to get debt free
Sam tells Orion that he has made a proposition to Herman Camp to sell the family’s 30,000 acres of Tennessee land to get out of debt. Orion says no. MT&OC pg 104 Sam is so broke and depressed that he’s suicidal he’s close to his self-imposed deadline of 3 months being up in January