New York: Orion Press, 1963. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first separate printing of this story from "A Tramp Abroad." A story arising from Twain's stay in Calaveras County among the gold rush miners, Jim Baker was a "middle-aged, simple hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California among the woods and mountains a good many years, and had studied the ways of his only neighbors, thebeasts and the birds, until he believed he could accurately translate any remark which they made."