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Joaquin Miller

aka
Cincinnatus Hiner Miller

(1837 ? -1913)
Indiana, Oregon, California



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Joaquin Miller
Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed., 2001)

Joaquin Miller
Cambridge History of English and American Literature

Travellers and Explorers, 1846-1900: Joaquin Miller
Cambridge History of English and American Literature

Joaquin Miller: Poet of the Sierras
Literary Traveler (a website)

A Concise Biography of Joaquin Miller

Joaquin Miller
Wikipedia

Joaquin Miller
Oregon Blue Book

Joaquin Miller
Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission

Chronology of His Life

Cincinnatus Hiner Miller
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889)
(James Grant Wilson & John Fiske eds.)(6 vols.)

Notable Oregonians: Joaquin Miller—Poet/Writer

Joaquin Miller: Oregon and Beyond

The Wild West in Piccadilly: Joaquin Miller and the Performance of Place

Joaquin Miller Home
California State Historic Landmark


[Source: Francis Whiting Halsey (ed.), American Authors and their Homes
(New York: James Pott & Company, 1901)(photograph/facing p. 144)]

 

George Grantham Bain Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

 

Poems

["Columbus"; "The Defense of the Alamo"; "Yosemite"; "In Southern California" — on-line text] [Mount Shasta] [Columbus] [Westward Ho!] [Crossing the Plains] [Vaquero] [Juanita] [Twilight of the Heights] [At the Grave of Walker] [Peter Cooper] [By the Pacific Ocean] [Dead in the Sierras] [To Russia] [The Voice of the Dove] [The Danites] [Songs of the Soul] [Light: A Narrative Poem] [The Poetry of Joaquin Miller]



Thos. W. Herringshaw, The Biographical Review of Prominent
Men and Women of the Day

(Chicago: Elliott and Beezley, 1889)

Poetry

Joaquin Miller, Joaquin, et al. (Portland, Oregon: S.J. McCormick, 1869)

__________, Pacific Poems (London: Whittingham and Wilkins, London, 1871)

__________, Songs of the Sierras (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1871) (London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1871) [on-line text] (Toronto: Canadian News and Publishing, 1871) (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871) [on-line text] [on-line text]

__________, Songs of The Sun-Lands (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873) [on-line text] (London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1873) [on-line text]

__________, The Ship in the Desert (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1875) [on-line text]

__________, The Baroness of New York (New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1877) [on-line text]

__________, The Danites: and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller, "the Poet of the Sierras" (New York: American News Company, 1878) (A. V. D. Honeyman ed.) [on-line text] [on-line text]

__________, Songs of Far-Away Lands (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1878) [on-line text]

__________, Memorie and Rime (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1884) [on-line text]

____________, Songs of the Mexican Seas (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887) [on-line text]

__________, Poems (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889)

__________, In Classics Shades and Other Poems (Chicago: Belford-Clarke Co. 1890) [on-line text]

__________, Songs of Summer Lands (Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., 1893) [on-line text] [on-line text] [on-line text] [on-line text]

__________, Songs of the Sierras and Sunlands (Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., 1893) [on-line text]

__________, Songs of the Soul (San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray Company, 1896) [on-line text] [on-line text]

__________, The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller (San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray Co. 1897)(San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray, 1904)(1902) [on-line text] (New York: Arno Press, 1972)

__________, As It Was in the Beginning, A Poem (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1903)

__________, Light: A Narrative Poem (Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1907) [on-line text] [on-line text]

__________, Joaquin Miller's Poems (San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publ. Co./Whitaker & Ray Co., 1909-1916)[Bear Edition](6 vols.)

Vol. 2: Songs of the Sierras (San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publ. Co., 1916) [on-line text]

Vol. 6: Poetic Plays (San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray, 1910) [on-line text]

__________, Forty-Nine, an Idyl Drama of the Sierras (San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing, 1910)

__________, The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923)

Journals & Autobiography

Joaquin Miller, Overland in a Cover Wagon (New York: Appleton, 1930)(Sidney G. Firman ed.)

John S. Richards (ed.), Joaquin Miller: His California Diary (San Francisco: Dogwood Press, San Francisco, 1936)

Joaquin Miller, Overland in a Covered Wagon: An Autobiography (New York: D. Appleton, 1930) (Sidney G. Firman ed.)

__________, My Story (Chicago: Bedford Clarke, 1890)

__________, My Own Story (London: Saxon & Co., Publishers, 1891)

Alfred Powers (ed.), A Royal Highway of the World (Portland, Oregon: Metropolitan Press, 1932)(Miller's 1864 Canyon City diary)

John S. Richards, (ed.), Joaquin Miller: His California Diary Beginning in 1855 and Ending in 1857 (Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1936)

Writings

Joaquin Miller, Specimens (Portland, Oregon: Carter Hines, 1868)

__________, Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1873) [on-line text] (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1874) (Berkeley: Heyday Books/Urion Press, Berkeley, 1996) (autobiographical novel)

__________, The One Fair Woman (New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1876) [on-line text]

__________, First Fam'lies of the Sierras (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 1876) [on-line text]

__________, Paquita, The Indian Heroine. A True Story, Wild and Sad (Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Co., 1881)

__________, Shadows of Shasta (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1881) [on-line text] [on-line text] [on-line text]

__________, Forty-Nine: A California Drama in Four Acts (San Francisco: California Publishing Company, 1882)

__________, William Brown of Oregon (Cleveland, Ohio: The Alden Printing Company, 1883)

__________, 49 The Gold-Seeker Of The Sierras (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1884)

__________, Memorie and Rime (New York: Funk & Wagnals, 1884)

__________, The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras (Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1886)

__________, The Destruction of Gotham (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1886) [on-line text]

__________, The Building of the City Beautiful (Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1893) (Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 2nd ed., 1894) (Trenton, New Jersey: Albert Brandt, 1905)

__________, An Illustrated History of the State of Montana (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1894)

__________, True Bear Stories (New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1900) (Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1949) (Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press, 1987)

__________, The Battle of Castle Crags (San Francisco: The Traveler, 1894(?)

__________, Chants for the Boer (San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray, 1900)

__________, The Bear Stories (Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1900) [on-line text]

__________, The Danities in the Sierras (in Four Acts) (San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co., 1910) [on-line text]

__________, Columbus (Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1917) (a short cantata for mixed voices, music by E.S. Hosmer; text by Joaquin Miller)

__________, Trelawny with Shelly and Byron (Pompton Lakes, New Jersey: Biblio Co., 1922) [on-line text]

__________, Adah Isaacs Menken (Ysleta, Texas: Edwin B. Hill, 1934)

Stuart P. Sherman (ed), The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller (New York: G.P. Putnams, 1923)

__________, Selections from Joaquin Miller's Poems (Oakland, California; Tooley-Towne, printers, 1945) (arranged by Juanita Joaquina Miller)

Alan Rosenus (ed.), Selected Writings of Joaquin Miller (Eugene, Oregon: Union Press, 1976)

Bibliography

Merritt Parmelee Allen, Joaquin Miller, Frontier Poet (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932)

O.W. Frost, Joaquin Miller (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967)

Elbert Hubbard, So Here Then Is A Little Journey To The Home of Joaquin Miller. Also a Study of the Man and His Work by George Wharton James (East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1903) [on-line text]

Benjamin S. Lawson, Joaquin Miller (Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1980)

Ray C. Longtin, Three Writers of the Far West : A Reference Guide (Joaquin Miller, Charles Warren Stoddard, George Sterling) (Old Tappan, New Jersey: G.K. HAll, 1980)

M.M. Marberry, Splendid Poseur: Joaquin Miller, American Poet (New York: Thomas Crowell, 1953)

Juanita J. Miller, My Father, C.H. Joaquin Miller, Poet (Oakland, California: Tooley-Towne,1941) (Oakland: Tooley-Towne, 2nd ed., 1964)

Martin Severin Peterson, Joaquin Miller. Literary Frontiersman (Stanford University Press, 1937)

Harr Wagner, Joaquin Miller and His Other Self (San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1929)

Franklin Walker, San Francisco's Literary Frontier (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1970)

Bibliography: Articles & Essays

Howard M. Corning, Joaquin Miller: Lawyer, Poet, Judge in Canyon City, 47 Oregon Historical Quarterly 165-180 (1946)

________________, The Mountain in the Sky 19-23 (Portland, Oregon: Metropolitan Press, 1930)

John B. Horner, Oregon History and Early Literature 424-433 (Portland, Oregon: J.K. Gill Co., 1919)

Benjamin S. Lawson, "Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Hiner)," in Eric L. Haralson (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998)

Research Resources

Joaquin Miller Collection of Papers
Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley

Joaquin Murieta-The Legend