Mark Twain was really good friends with my Great Grandfather. He gave my Grandma Lee a baby doll. I remember she showed it to me when I was about 5 years old.

Another Awsome Adventure you Bring History Alive Love Mark Twain he lived vary interesting life take care God Bless

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Mary!

We used to go up to Angels Camp every spring break and summer to visit my grandparents, and would stop here with them on the way to Columbia State Park and Sonora. It’s amazing how good of condition this cabin is still in. Thanks again for all your videos on the Gold Country, they bring back some great memories. This whole area is so special.

@oldermusiclover

11 ай бұрын

been there once years ago Loved the Moaning Cave

Thanks! I'm reading Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer right now so this helps bring those books to life seeing a location where Mark Twain spent time and hearing some of his history.

Love these old stories.

History is an unending adventure. And you guys are the best at helping share it.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! We enjoyed comments like yours and appreciate you watching our episodes!

Really enjoyed this video. I visited the cabin over 40 years ago when visiting family in Sonora and Columbia. Brought back some fond memories. I don't recall the fence being there at that time. Nice job on video!

It's so refreshing to get real history! Thanks so much for History Hunters.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Thank you for the history lesson.This is so much better than school. i love it!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that! And I never wanted to be a classroom teacher! Thanks for watching and commenting!

Thanks guy's I really liked this one. Twain was a brilliant humorous writer and hard physical labor was not his thing. I can just imagine him carrying buckets of water from the creek. Here's a quote from him. A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it.

Hi ! Very interesting stories! You guys are the best at telling about history. Awesome ! Keep on vloggin ! Thanks ☺️👍. Deborah Winnipeg Canada

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do! Thank you!!! We enjoyed comments like yours and appreciate you watching our episodes!

Please keep the videos coming. Love them.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for expressing your appreciation for our videos. We love to make them and enjoy visiting the places that we go to. So please keep watching and will see you on our next adventure.

Cool history I love hunting around and looking at all the old stuff !!!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, Smithsgold! Glad you enjoy our travels to historical places!

I was there about 4 years ago, I see the horses are still there, they were very friendly. Take care!

Thank you for this video. I didn't know about this time in Twain's life and his flight from San Francisco. He was a colorful character.💕

I love to go along with you and learn about a California’s history. Thank you for all the work that goes into these.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

We’re glad you like tagging along! We hope you’re having fun! Thanks for your views and praises!

Your video’s are always worth watching and listening to, well narrated.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so! I appreciate you letting us know! Take care! -- Jeff

Another interesting story. Thanks for all you do to share and keep history alive.

@jbenziggy

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!

Superb history and you and Sarah are the best at telling it 🍁🍄🍂🌸 Your voice is so beautiful 🌻💫 Cannot wait to follow all your other videos 🍇🍓🫐🥑🍒🥝🫒🥬 Take care and enjoy your weekend 🥨🥐

Cool post. I didn't know that "Mr. Twain" was at one time a fugitive from the law. Interesting stuff about people who were true characters.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliment! We appreciate it! Yep, Mark was a rebel!

@MagravatorMag

3 жыл бұрын

He was also a fugitive from a few landlords 😉

Glad they restored it, last time I was there was in the ‘90s and it was barely standing.

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone swimming there and crossed that bridge

Ahhh in my neck od the woods again...I have been up to that cabin several times and each time I see something different. I currently live in Ceres so all the Mother Lode places that you have gone to I have been there as well plus my geology class and club take field trips up that way. Thank you for taking us back in history.

Another interesting side bit about CA. history, you're making me want to go out again to visit these points of interest. I would love to have you up here in Plumas co.!!! Lots of gold rush areas.

I remember when my wife and I visited Columbia state park and there was an actor who played Mark Twain roaming the streets he was fantastic! perfect representation of him, my wife took a picture with him and it was like stepping back in time standing in front of the old saloon.

I really love your chanel,very well documented and very informative,i love the old era of the Old Wild West.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! We enjoyed comments like yours and appreciate you watching our episodes!

My daughter loved visiting Molly when we would come up there to visit the cabin. Molly was friendly and would sometimes bray to get attention. We were so sad when we made our trek one year and she wasn’t there - only the marker. My daughter had called her “Trotter” as we didn’t know her name was Molly until after she passed.

Both of you never fail to amaze and enlighten me to the local history.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! We enjoyed comments like yours and appreciate you watching our episodes!

When you mentioned his cabin in one of your earlier videos, I was imagining a much larger cabin, with tours, in a cute little town, etc. This was definitely different than what I had pictured :-) Still pretty neat to see, though. Thanks for the preview, Jeff. I'm still hoping to get up there one day.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Steve, I always look forward to your comments on my videos and always look for yours! SO thanks. Yeah, no wonder Mark Twain was going crazy on Jackass Hill in that tiny cramped cabin in the middle of winter. I'm sure he had plenty of time to think and write above the din of braying and snoring!

Mr. Clemens was certainly a very interesting and well traveled man. Thanks for the tour!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

You bet he was! Very interesting life he led! You're welcome!

Over the many years here in California I have visited the infamous Cabin getting there is a bit of a climb hence the name given Jackass Hill. First time setting my eye's upon the cabin was back in the middle of 1975 or so but more recently visited the cabin with a Girlfriend from Oregon whom is an avid reader in the more recent 2014 or so after. They really did a nice job rebuilding the cabin because back in the late 1970's you could just walk right in and lay right down making it feel just like Mark Twain and boys were back in the old cabin. Much later the iron fence was added to aid in preserving the historical site which is well and good.

Great sound effects with the donkeys. Wonderful as always and informative. I am about to name Twain the father of fake news. Thank you Jeff and Sarah.

As one of your newest subscribers I want you to know that I really enjoy your videos! A tremendous contribution given the current stay at home conditions. I'm learning lots more through your efforts and has that has rekindled fond memories from the time I lived in Turlock and served on the Turlock Historical Society BOD. I'm glad I found your channel! Keep up the good work!! David in Bellingham, WA

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel! I’m happy that you like our work ... and it is work! I actually work across the street from the museum you mention!

@slink1957

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy Do you have a means where your $upporter$ can contribute?

I'm glad they restored the cabin. Tiny cabin for 4 guys.

Another great episode! Keep up the great work Jeff and Sarah.

@jbenziggy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

Fascinating stuff! I read enough Twain to realize he was a prolific writer and a teller of tall tales and much of it made for some good reading. Thanks!

@jbenziggy

2 жыл бұрын

He was quite the humorist too! Love his stuff too!

@disco07

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy Yep!

@disco07

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy A master of comedic irony while tackling issues regarding injustices of his day. Like slavery!

As is always the case; fun viewing, great and knowledgeable narrative

Nice and thanks, these videos fill my wild west craze, I love it !! Always a good job guys..

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear! Thanks very much!!!

Last time I was there in 2018 there were a few peacocks roaming the area. Always worth a stop. Sorry to hear that Molly passed away.

Love your channel! Keep posting!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Twice years ago I went to see the cabin pretty cool now learning the history of it!!!

Another great production...Keep it up.

Always look forward to your videos, well done! Stay well and be safe!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

This Was Wonderful, I Loved It...Keep em coming..Stay Safe...

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! We enjoyed comments like yours and appreciate you watching our episodes!

Another entertaining and educational episode! I always enjoy your videos😊

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! We enjoyed comments like yours and appreciate you watching our episodes!

Some very interesting information thanks to you both!!!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much David! We appreciate you watching and giving us some great feedback!

So that's how he ended up there (briefly) again you've put the pieces of the puzzle together. Last visited the site in 2009 a good place to take visitors as Clements is such a key american figure, and what wit. Thanks again.

Fantastic! Always learn a lot from your videos, and great to see Sarah getting into the speaking a bit more!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, guy! We appreciate you watching and commenting again! Safe travels to you guys!!!

The little road that leads up to Twains cabin, is easy to miss. Been up to Twains cabin a few times.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Very dangerous to make a left onto it as well! Thanks for watching!

@MrRJDB1969

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy - Depending on which direction you're heading, yes. We always come in from Tuttletown direction, so, making that right turn is easier. Coming in from the other direction and making that left, on a busy day, would be rough.

Now I know where Jack Ass Hill is!! Thanks for sharing this episode.. always learn something new 👍👍

Mark Twain obviously went on to have a brilliant career and traveled all over the world but I'm sure he never forgot his brief time in that small cabin. I learned a lot from this episode, thank you.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to hear you learned a lot from it, Scott! Thanks for watching and commenting!!!

I watch your videos on our big screen. I go back later to like and comment on my phone. I don’t know if it helps you guys or not but thx so much for your great videos!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that! Yes it does help us! Comments and likes help get us recommended! We appreciate you so much! Thanks!

GREAT STORY JEFF...BEEN THERE..

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Donald! We appreciate you watching!

Tuolumne County is loaded with more history besides a replica of a replica cabin where someone stayed a few weeks. Try Murder's gulch or the hanging tree for example. I've lived in Sonora 8 years and I'm told I need to reside here another 32 years to be considered a local.

GOOD SHOW THANKS

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!!!

Enjoyed getting a wee bit more on Mark Twain Lovely video enjoyed :) Thankyou

This is so interesting O remembered Mark Twain wintering there.

Hi Jeff I always visited Sonora area but haven’t heard of jackass hill . Might have to go take a visit sometime and check it out like always your videos are awesome! Can’t wait for more content of yours to come out!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for enjoying our episodes of History Hunters!

Thanks guys….reconstructed (cabin)or not it so neat to know that Mark Twain walked that ground. Very interesting.

@jbenziggy

3 ай бұрын

Mark Twain is one of my favorite American figures! I’m so glad he was in our part t of the world!

@user-nn4bc9pv5f

3 ай бұрын

I thought much of Mark Twain how he befriended Uslysses S Grant in helping him towards the end of his life, with the publishing of Grants memoir, thus restoring finances to benefit and help Grant’s family after his death.

Have you created a video on Jimmy Doolittle and his youth spent in Ceres?

thanks guys! y'all do with facts.....

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! We enjoyed comments like yours and appreciate you watching our episodes!

Wow!

Love your videos

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, Brian!

I really enjoy your videos I love history.. As well

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bill! Thanks for watching!!!

@wcasby0204

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy your welcome

That cabin is adequate for four men if you think of it as not a home, but a wood tent. They slept there, prepared their morning and evening meals there and worked outside during the day. Is there water nearby? I wonder where they got their supplies, was there a town nearby? Did they travel on horseback? No toilet facilities, probably had a pit toilet outhouse. Plenty of homeless people today would love to have a cabin like that.

Awesome video 🤘 new subscriber from England

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome thank you! Welcome to our channel!

@raccabird8889

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy thank you for having me 🤘

@HistoryHunterSarah

3 жыл бұрын

@@raccabird8889 Hi! Welcome!

The more I learn about Sam Clemens, the less I like him. I never heard that he lost his job as a riverboat captain. He fled to California to avoid the Civil War. It seems that he was also good at writing fictitious articles for newspapers that he worked for. I enjoyed the video Jeff and Sarah. I always like your work.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Sam definitely was not a saint. He was a smart aleck and a very sharp man though.

Ok so the old photos show milled vertical boards but the current reconstruction is partial log slabs giving it that log cabin look.

Loved this video. And yes the man was hitting on Sara. He said something about to bad. when he found out you were with her. That was funny. Thanks for all your adventures.

Brilliant

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching our video and commenting! Much appreciated!

No mention of Twain Harte, that Mark Twain & Bret Harte namesake town just past Jamestown, Sonora, and even Strawberry. It snows "up that way," too.

@brianfergel2229

3 жыл бұрын

Highway 108

Every time I hear you mention the Clampers, I wonder if you've done an episode just about E Clampus Vitus??

The Building that is partially Collapsed in the first picture supposedly his home Looks Bigger also the Roof is taller in the picture than the one rebuilt to represent it. It doesn't represent it 100% at all

@claredegroff1491

3 жыл бұрын

Also the original is ruff sawn boards attached vertically the reconstruction is sawn logs leaving a rounded side which is exposed to make it look like a log cabin

JackassHill haha... Once Again Great American History...👍🏻🤠🇺🇸

That was really interesting. Naturally I only know the name Mark Twain however I have over the years read some of his works, so it was nice to hear more about him. Umm Sarah needs to work in her introduction skills lolol. Thanks guys from Down Under.

@HistoryHunterSarah

3 жыл бұрын

Working on it. Camera shy and awkward but working on it. Thanks for watching.

It about time someone took an interest in CA history

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliment! We appreciate it!

I wonder if we have writers today who stay in remote places like this and draw inspiration for their writings?

That cabin is a replica. It was built by my uncle Dan McFarland of Stent.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah we mentioned how it was rebuilt. I think it was even rebuilt for a third time.

The Gillis cabin is in Tuolumne county not Calaveras county.

@ArizonaGhostriders

3 жыл бұрын

Just looked at a map. Appears to be Calaveras.

💛...i'd love to be in the brain of twain...

How do you know all this stuff? I grew up in Modesto and don’t know half this stuff.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Research and interest, plus years of living!

Did Mark Twain started writing any of his famous books while staying in the Cabin?🙂📖✍

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Jumping Frog of Calaveras County!

Have you done a piece on Moaning Cave?

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

No. You can check our entire list on KZread and see what we have shows on.

I remember a donkey there in the 1970s

I heard about the Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and, of course Mark Twain is an institution.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Hey definitely is an American icon! Thanks for watching Arleen!

Hey there, what is your email? Looked for it everywhere. Love your videos! Thanks, Kelly Carlson

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

We are happy that you like our videos. Actually you love them! LOL. You may email me at j.benziger@sbcglobal.net

Mark Twain Cabin = Tuolumne County

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been duly schooled. LOL

@rdo1231

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy It's all good :)) your channel still rocks - keep up the great work!

Your wife never seems to be enthusiastic about anyting

@HistoryHunterSarah

3 жыл бұрын

Never?