Virginia City as a reporter and by late 1862, had become the city editor. Clemens first used "Mark Twain" as his pen name while working for the Enterprise (Kunitz 159). He started doing freelance reporting in 1864 for several San Francisco newspapers (Smith 175).
             In November of 1865, "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog" was published in The Saturday Press, in New York (Smith 175). This short story is more commonly known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Th
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