1861

Primary Sources
Democratic Herald to Democratic Register to Democratic Review. Eugene, Oregon. [Should contain articles, editorials attributable to Joaquin Miller, 1861-1862] [LHM][MGK]

Miller, Joaquin. After All. Oregon Union. (26 June 1861) [MGK]
-----. Letter to the Editor. By J. W. Miller. “Killed by a Grizzly Bear - A
Leaf from my Scrap-book.” Jacksonville Times [Rogue River, Oregon] (31
October 1861) [OHS Papers File] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
“Personal.” Oregon Weekly Times [Portland, Oregon] (2 November 1861) [OHS
microfilm]. “By reference to our new advertisement this morning, it will be seen that Messrs. Mossman & Co. have started an Express to the Nez Pearce [Nez Perce] Mines, extending thence to this city and all other places of note on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Mossman is deserving of success, as he has evinced more than an ordinary perseverance and determination to prosecute his enterprise. We are confident that all matters entrusted to his care will be promptly and faithfully attended to. His references are from among the best men of our country.”
The next paragraph is about Mossman’s marriage, which had been announced the previous day. [MCK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Seven letters to James Andrew Waymire, 1861-1910. Papers, four folders, including letters, military papers, & misc. belonging to James Andrew Waymire. [OHS] [MGK]

Advertisement, Weekly Mountaineer [The Dalles, Oregon] 21 August 1861. [OHS
microfilm]. Ad for W. W. Chapman (Late Surveyor General), Attorney at Law,
Portland. [MCK] Miller’s uncle, according to Mossman and one of the founders of the Oregonian (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index-(C000318). [MGK]

Advertisement for Mossman & Co.’s Express. Oregon Weekly Times [Portland, Oregon] 2 November 1861. [OHS microfilm]. [The ad is entitled “Mossman & Co.’s Express. To and From Nez Perces Mines” and reads in part “Extended to all parts of Oregon and California. Offices are established at the places hereinafter mentioned, and the following names are given as references.” A list of references follows as well as the office’s location at Parrish’s Book Store, Front St. The names I. V. Mossman and C. H. Miller appear at the bottom of the ad.] [MCK]

Brosnan, Cornelius James, Papers, 1917-1950. University of Idaho.
Joaquin Miller folder “contains several letters from various people about the life of Miller and early Pierce City”[http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special
collections/Manuscripts/mg018.htm] [MCK]

Morrill, Allen & Eleanor, University of Idaho. This manuscript group contains an unidentified newspaper article by Joaquin Miller entitled “Reminiscences of the Discovery of Gold in Idaho.” [Online Catalog] [MCK]

 
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