But the earlier literature of the Pacific slope was, like that of the Atlantic seaboard, national and characteristic only its humor. The local press sparkled with wit and satire, and, as in the East, developed its usual individual humorists. Of these should be mentioned the earliest pioneers of California humor- Lieut Derby. U.S. army engineer officer, author of a series of delightful extravagances known as the Squibob Papers, and the later and universally known Mark Twain, who contributed The Jumping Frog of Calaveras to the columns of the weekly press. The San Francisco News Letter, whose whilom contributor, Major Bierce, has since written some of the most graphic romances of the Civil War; The Golden Era, in which the present writer published his earlier sketches, and The Californian, to which, as editor , in burlesque imitation of the enterprise of his journalistic betters, he contributed The Condensed Novels, were the foremost literary weeklies
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