In "the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county," mark twain establishes the west as a
place

The West as a place of irreverence and unruliness or humour, has been established by Mark Twain in the The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

Explanation:

The story is narrative tale about a gambler named, Jim Smiley and his jumping frog. the whole story has no point proven in regard to the narrator, who was being sent to the place with the motive to get information about sender's acquaintance from Simon Wheeler.

Thereby, amidst the story narratives by Simon Wheeler in the story itself, when the story of Jim Smiley ends, he founds himself to have establish West, a place of irreverence and unruliness as in humorous.

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