Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Songs of the Sierras. London: Longmans, Green & Co. "A new edition"
dated 7 December 1874. [PMC] [MGK]; Boston: Roberts Bros. [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company. 445 pages. [UOL] [OAK] [NUV] [HUN] [OHS] [MES] [USC] San Francisco: A[nton]. Roman & Co., 1874. [HON has a copy with a holograph letter, signed by Miller, laid in as well as a second unsigned copy.] [OHS gives title as "Amongst."] [BAL says title "Among" and 6:185 notes that this book was released in London a year earlier and uses "Amongst."] [AAS has a first edition.] [MGK]
-----. Joaquin Miller's Arizonian. [German Translation by Edward Seyh.] Baltimore, MD: Fischer & Rossmassler. [HON] [MGK]
-----. At Sea and I stand beside the Mobile Sea. In Sea and Shore... Boston Publishing.
[BAL (6:211) notes that the former is reprinted from Songs of the Sun-Lands,
1873.] [The latter is extracted from Californian, Songs of the Sierras, 1871.]
[MGK]
-----. "The March through Tropic Woods." Pacific Coast Fourth Reader. San Francisco, 1874 (S.F Pub. Library has). [See also 1875, 1877.] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. One Hundred Choice Selections No. 8. Philadelphia. [BAL 6:211 notes that Miller's work appears in this publication.] [MGK]
-----. Commentary on Proverbs, 1874. Listed in “Joaquin Miller Books.”
(60 entries) [OHS Clippings File]. [MCK]
-----. “The River Rhine [and Heidelberg].” Overland Monthly. 12.1(January 1874): 65-67. [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [SPL] [MOA] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “Literary London.” The Independent. 26.1311(15 January 1874): 1-2. [Cornell University Library microfilm-halfway through this project they changed their inter-library loan policy.] [MGK]
-----. Rome. The Independent. (1 January 1874) [HON]; Daily Alta California. 26.8691
(16 January 1874): 4:1 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Literary London.” The Independent. 26.1312. (22 January 1874): 4 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Literary London.” The Independent. 26.1313 (January 29): 3-4 [HON] [MGK]
-----. Oregon. The Independent. 26.1313 (29 January 1874). [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Literary London.” The Independent. 26.1315 (12 February 1874): 2-3. [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Literary London.” The Independent. 26.1316 (19 February 1874): 2-3 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Literary London.” The Independent. (29 February 1874). [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Headwaters of the Sacramento.” Overland Monthly. 12. (March 1874): 272-279 [RCL] [Unsigned article believed to have been written by Miller although he writes about himself as he does elsewhere.] [MGK] [MOA] [MCK]
-----. “Literary London.” The Independent. 26.1318. (5 March 5 1874): 4-5. [HON]
[MGK]
-----. “Literary London.” The Independent. 26.1319 (12 March 1874): 3-4 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “ In Africa.” The Independent. 26.1329 (21 May 1874): 1. [HON] [MGK]
-----. Up the Nile. The Independent. 26.1333 (18 June 1874): 4 [HON] [MGK]
-----. In Arizona. Overland Monthly. 13.1 (July 1874):65-67. July. [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [SPL] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. The Ship in the Desert. Atlantic Monthly. 34.102 (July 1874): 48-50 [HON] [MOA] [MGK] [MCK] International Review 3 (? 1874): 94 [HGT] [MCK]
-----. “The New Vesuvius.” The Independent. 16.1336 (9 July 1874): 1-2. [MGK]
-----. “A Drive on the Via Appil[a].” The Independent. 26.1340 (6 August 1874): 3-4 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Drive on the Via Appil[a].” The Independent. 26.1341 (13August 1874): 3-4. [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The New Vesuvius.” The Independent. 26.1342 (20 August 1874): 2-3. [HON] [MGK]
-----. In the City of the Sea. The Independent. 26.1343 (27 August 1874): 1. (A poem written in Venice, Italy.) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Charcoal Sketch of Genoa.” The Independent. 26.1344 (3 September 1874): 1-2. [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Another Sketch of Genoa.” The Independent. 26.1345 (10 September 1874): 4-5. [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Storm in Venice.” The Independent. 26.1347 (24 September 1874) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Pace Implora. Overland Monthly 13.4 (October 1874): 310. (A poem dated "Venice, 1874.") [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “In the Oldest Republic [San Marino].” The Independent. 26.1352 (29 October 1874) 1-3. [Written in Ravenna, Italy.] [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Plains: A Prophecy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 49.29 (November 1874): 879-884 [A poem dated, "Rome, 1874."] [CAL] [HON] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “Venice in Prose, I” The Independent. 26(1355) (19 November 1874): 1 [HON] [MGK]
-----. "Venice in Prose, II" The Independent. 26.1356 (November 26): 1-2. [HON] [Bugs and poverty.] [MGK]
-----. In Santa Maria: Torcello. Overland Monthly. 13.6 (December 1874): 506. (A poem dated "Venice, 1874.") [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [SPL] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. A Garibaldian's Story, The Independent. 26.1360 (24 December1874): 1. [HON] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, Duke of. Primeval Man: An Examination of Some
Recent Speculations. New York: G. Routledge & Sons, 1874. 26. [MOA]
Advertisement for Strahan & Company’s Book List. Excerpt from a Review on Saint Abe and His Seven Wives: A Mormon Romance in Verse from The Scotsman - “’ . . . there are pages which look as if they had been written by Joaquin Miller.’” [MCK]
Seyh, Edward [German translation]. Arizonian. Baltimore, MD: Fisher & Rossmassler. [PMC] [BAL (6:216) notes that this work is “A translation into German. Erroneously listed by Johnson (1942:365) as though an original Miller production.”] [MGK]
Howells, William Dean. Review of Songs of the Sunlands. Atlantic Monthly 33 (1874) 107-108. [RCL] [MGK] [Peterson107] [MCK]
Parkhurst, C. “The Border Life of Joaquin Miller.” Lakeside 8. 1874. [Peterson] [MCK]
“Literature.” Review of Songs of the Sun-Lands. The Galaxy 17.1(January 1874): 142-143 [MOA] [MCK]
“Belles Lettres.” Review of Songs of the Sun Lands. New Englander and Yale Review
33.126 (January 1874): 204-205. [MOA] [MCK] [RCL] [MGK]
“Culture and Progress.” Review of Songs of the Sun-Lands. Scribner’s Monthly 7.3(January 1874): 377-378. [MOA] [MCK]
Review of Songs of the Sunlands. New Englander 33 (January 1874): 204-205. [RCL] [MGK] [MAR] [MCK]
The Nation 18 (29 January 1874): 77-79. [RCL] [PMC says review of Songs of the
Sierras.] [Loving 1999:360 says included “harsh criticism about Whitman while
praising Miller.” [MGK] [MCK]
[Dennett, J. R.]. “Songs of the Sunlands.” The Nation 18(29 January 1874): 77-79. [PMC mistakenly says review of Songs of the Sierras.] [Loving 1999:360 says included “Comparison of Miller and Whitman, to the latter’s advantage. ‘There was . . . more than mere strangeness in Mr. Whitman’s work to attract and repay foreign study. In Mr. Miller’s we can find little more than the strangeness.’ He has new scenery and stage properties but that is all” [RCL 26] [MCK]
“Contemporary Literature.” Ladies’ Repository 13.2 (February 1874): 153.
[MOA] This Review of Songs of the Sun-lands is glowing and the Reviewer concludes: “every page . . . flashes with the genius of its author.” (153). [MCK]
“Literary Notes.” Overland Monthly 12.2 (February 1874): 188. [MOA]
[Note that Miller is in Rome.] [MCK]
“Contemporary Sayings.” Appleton’s 11.257 (21 February 1874): 255. [MOA]
[Quote from an article in the Nation regarding the popularity of Miller and Walt
Whitman in Europe.] [MCK]
“American Poets.” Dublin Review n.s. 22, (April 1874): 306. [No writer is more intensely national than the young Californian poet, Joaquin Miller.] [RCL 25] [MGK] [MCK]
“Contemporary Sayings.” Appleton’s 11.263(4 April 1874): 448. [MOA]
“ ‘Hawthorne,’ says Joaquin Miller, ‘speaks of Lord Houghton as the wittiest
man in England. But he is a vast deal more than a wit. He is a man brimful of sympathy for all man, and for young artists in particular. A peer of the realm, he is yet as good a democrat - or republican, as you please - as ever cast a ballot in America’” [MCK]
Joaquin Miller as a horse thief. San Francisco Post (7 May 1874): 1:1. [CAL] [MGK]
“Etc. California in the Eastern and Foreign Magazines.” Overland Monthly
13.2 (August1874): 186. [MOA] [MCK]
“American Drama.” New York Times (18 September 1874): 4. [NYT online].
[“Walt Whitman and Joaquin Miller, they [foreign critics] say, have done something for American poetry. But where is the versemaker, who is as gifted as Longfellow or Lowell [?]” [MCK]
Rev. of Life Among the Modocs [German translation by Edward Seyh] in “New Publications.” Daily Alta California 26,9008 (30 November 1874): 1:4. [CAL] [MGK]
“Contemporary Sayings.” Appleton’s 12.299 (12 December 1874): 768. [MOA]
[Quote from Miller’s recent letter on Venice to the Independent.] [MCK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to [Charles Warren Stoddard]. _______. (1874?):1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11259.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Frederick Locker-Lampson. [HON has in JM Box II: vol. 2.14] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Longmans & Co. [HON has in JM Box I: folder 1:1.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [William Hayes Ward] from Rome, Italy. (7 April 1874): 3 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11269.] [MGK]
-----. An August 1874 inscription to his parents. [See 16 June 1875.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [Charles Warren] Stoddard from Paris, [France]. (8 October 1874): 2 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11257.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [William] Hayes [Ward] from Langham Hotel, London. (17 October 1874): 3 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11258.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to James H. Miller from London, England. (21 November 1874): 3 pages. [University of Oregon] [LHM] [MGK]
-----. Letter to the editor of the The Independent (22 November 1874) [HON has in JM Box I: folder 1.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to James Thomas Fields from London. (31 December 1874): 3 p. [Huntington Library, FI 3325.] [MGK]