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Famed humorist and storyteller Mark Twain penned vivid tales during California s Gold Rush era, including one of his most popular works, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (an annual Gold Country competition that still has legs). Other good gold-rush reads include Bret Harte s The Luck of Roaring Camp, a sentimental tale of hard-luck miners and their false toughness, and J. S. Holliday elitch gardens s The World Rushed In, one of the finest nonfiction accounts of the Gold Rush still in print.

BEACHES There are only two beaches in San Francisco that are safe for swimming: Aquatic Park, which is a patch of sand adjacent to the Hyde Park Pier, and China Beach, a small cove on the western edge of the South Bay. But dip in at your own risk there are no lifeguards, and the water is painfully cold.

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