He’s good enough for one thing, I should judge he can out jump any frog in Calaveras County, said Smiley in Mark Twain’s famous short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” This was the inspiration for the Calaveras County Jumping Frog Contest, which has taken place 1928 in the village of Angel Camp in Calaveras County, California. The first year, 15,000 people attended this unusual event, more than the entire population of Calaveras County at the time The following year, the crowd doubled, and by 1931, the event was so popular that two additional jumping areas had to be added to accommodate entries from around the world. Today, more than 50,000 spectators attend this event and the frog entries number 1,000.