1881

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. The Danites in the Sierras. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. [Produced in 1881.] 258 pages. [PMC] [LHM] [USC][OAK] [HUN has edition with Colophon (plate) pasted in end paper.] [HON holds this book and notes that it is the “Revised edition of his First Fam'lies of the Sierras.” Their copy is inscribed by the author.] [BAL (6:189) notes that, “A cursory examination indicates that this 1881 edition was printed from altered plates of First Fam'lies of the Sierras, Chicago, 1876, the principal variations being the addition of a ‘Preface’ to this revised edition; revision of the material at pp. 154-163 of First Fam'lies of the Sierras.”] [Some realistic facts detailed.] [AAS also has a first edition and says it is a Revised edition of his First Families of the Sierras.] [MGK] [Middlebury College] [MCK]
-----. How to Win on Wall Street. Penned under the name "by a Successful Operator," both Pherne Miller and [UOL] attribute this 185 page book to Joaquin Miller.] New York: W. Carleton & Co.; London: S. Low, Son & Co. [HON notes that Merle Johnson attributed this work to Miller. They have a slip case copy.] [BAL (6:217) notes: "Sometimes attributed to Joaquin Miller. BAL has been unable to support the attribution. Author unknown."] [MGK] Listed in “Joaquin Miller Books.” (60 entries) (OHS Clippings File). Copy at University of Oregon, (Library Catalog) [MCK]
-----. Paquita, The Indian Heroine. A True Story . . . Presenting Graphic Pictures of
Indian Home Life in Peace and War, as Beheld by the Author During his Residence of Four Years Among the Red Men. [Life Amongst the Modocs]. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co. 1881. 445 pages. [UOL] [OAK] [USC] [AAS has a first edition.] [HON has a copy with a holograph letter, signed, laid in.] [MGK] [Berkeley Public Library Catalog] [MCK]
-----. Shadows of Shasta. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company. 1881. 184 pages. [RCL] [UOL has two copies.] [OAK has one copy.] [MES] [MES] [AAS has a first edition.] [HON has a first edition, inscribed by the author.] [BAN and [BAL] note three printings.] [Dedicated to Whitelaw Reid, an editor. Includes: Introductory Mount Shasta (p.17), Twenty Carats Fine, Man-Hunters, The Old Gold-Hunter, Proem For the Right, The Capture, and The Escape.] [HUN has first editions.] [MNS also cites.] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Shadows of Shasta. Chicago: Hollyer 1881. [MGK]
-----. The Songs of the Sierras. Boston: Roberts Bros. 1881.This book had two printings in 1881 at 1,000 copies per edition [PMC] [MGK]
-----. Songs of the Sun-Lands. Boston: Roberts Bros. 1881. (Copyright 1873) [PMC] [MGK]
-----. Mount Shasta. 1881 [MCK]
-----. Oregon, 1881 [play] [MCK]
-----. Gems for the Fireside... Compiled by Rev. O. H. Tiffany. Boston. 1881 [BAL] [MGK]
-----. The Great Plains and the Desert. The Pacific Tourist. Adams & Bishop's Illustrated TransContinental Guide of Travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean... Henry T. Williams, Editor. New York: Adams & Bishop. 1881 [BAL (6:207) notes that Miller contributed to this publication.] [MGK]
-----. Indian Summer. Autumn Poems and Sketches. Compiled by L. Clarkson. New York. 1881. [BAL] [MGK]
-----. Love Me, Love and other poems. In Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry. 1881. Edited by Epes Sargent. New York. [BAL (6:212) notes that “All Miller material reprinted from other books. For Pauline, Songs of Italy, 1878, appears herein under the title Love Me, Love.”] [MGK]
-----. My Darling Have You Money. Words by Joaquin Miller. Music by Marion T. Fortescue. Published for the author. New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co; Chicago: Chicago Music Co. 1881. Copyright held by Marion T. Fortescue. [BAL (6:190) notes that, “The only located example was seen November 1946, in the New York book shop of Edward Eberstadt & Sons.”] [MGK]
-----. One Hundred Choice Selections No. 19.... Philadelpha and Chicago: P. Garrett & Co. 1881. [BAL (6:190) notes that “Tantalus: Texas” (pp. 172-173) is not found in the collected works.] [MGK]
-----. The Sioux Chief's Daughter. In The Elocutionists' Annual Number 8. Edited by Mrs. J.W. Shoemaker. 1881. Philadelphia: National School of Elocution and Oratory. pp. 82-85. [BAL (6:189) notes that, “For a partial printing see The Danites, 1878, pp. 159-160. Collected in In Classic Shades, 1890.”] [MGK]
-----. Students Dream, 1881. [Not located] [MGK] [Listed in “Joaquin Miller Books.” (60 entries)] [OHS Clippings File] [MCK]
-----. “The Tramp of Shilo.” In The Reading Club and Handy Speaker. No. 9. Edited by George M. Baker. Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham. [BAL (6:190) notes that “The Tramp of Shiloh,” pp. 40-42, appeared in In Classic Shades, 1890, as “After the War.”] [MGK]
-----. Various proems. In History of Llicking Co.O. Its Past and Present. Compiled by
N.N. Hill Jr. Newark, Ohio: A.A. Graham Company. 1881. [See also
http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Licking/LickingIndex.htm (2005) [MGK]
-----. “Old Californians.” Californian 3 (January 1881): 48-52 [OAK] [HON] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. To Mount Shasta. The Independent. New York. (17 February 1881) [HON] [This poem in two stanzas of nine lines each is noted as “A.MS.S. 1 leaf fol.” by [HON] and is located in JM Box 1: folder 4.] [a.k.a. Mount Shasta from Shadows of Shasta (see previous 1881 listing)] [MGK]
-----. God's House. The Independent. (17 March 1881) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Washington Territory. Californian. 3 (April 1881): 310 [OAK] [HON] [CAL] Also appeared under the title “In the Continuous Woods” in the August 15, 1889 issue of the The Independent [MGK]
-----. So Weary. Californian 4 (July 1881): 57 [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. A New York Love Song. The Independent. New York. (7 July 1881) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Sophie Perowskaja. Californian 4 (August 1881): 106-108. [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. Who is Love? The Independent. New York. (4 August 1881) [HON] [MGK]
-----. O Rare Colorado, A Pastoral Drama. (12 September 1881) [CAL: Juanita Miller's Sutro Library list.] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Rejoice. The Poets' Tributes to Garfield. The Collection of Poems Written for the Boston Daily Globe, and Many Selections: With Portrait and Biography. Edited and published by Moses King. Cambridge, MA. 1881. 80 pp. [HON] [GAR] [BAL (6:190) notes that Rejoice was first published in The Boston Globe 20 no.89 (27September 1881): 1. AAS has copy of the original memorial filed under Map Room, Holmes, O.W.] [MGK] [Miami University Libraries] [WC] [MCK]
-----. In Memoriam. Gems of Poetry and Song on James A. Garfield... "One of the World-Builders." Californian. Vol. 4, pp. 277-288, 387-398, 496-502; Vol. 5, pp. 32-36, 130-137. Columbus, OH. October-February. [BAL] [OAK] [HON] [MGK]
-----. By the Way. The Independent. New York. (24 November 1881) [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Beadle, John Hanson. Western Wilds, and the Men Who Redeem Them…
Cincinnati: Jones Brothers Pub. Co., 1881. 393. First printed in 1877. Also printed in 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1882. [MUL] [MCK]
Frank, B.F. and H.W. Chappell. History and Business Directory of Shasta County. Redding, CA: The Independent Book and Job Printing House. (References to Miller on pp. 32 and 141.) [MGK]
Nichol, John. American Literature, An Historical Sketch 1620-1880. Edinburgh: Adam and Clark, pp. 214-217. [Compares Miller with Whitman.] [RCL] [MGK]
Norton, John W. Souvenir of the Last Performance Given in the Grand Opera House . . .
April 9th, 1881 . . . Joaquin Miller’s Famous Drama, in 5 Acts, Entitled the Danites. New York. Broadside. St. Louis: Times Printing House, 1881 [WC] [MCK]
Wells, Harry L. History of Siskiyou County, California. Oakland: D.J. Stewart & Company. [RCL] (References to Miller on pp. 119-120.) [CAL] [Some 1987 descendants of 1881 locals disagree with Wells.] [MGK] [RCL] [MAR] [PET] [HGT] [MCK]
“Plays and Actors.” New York Times (23 January 1881): 7 [NYT online] [MCK]
Whitman, Walt. “The Poetry of the Future.” North American Review 132.291 (February
1881): 200 [MOA] [MCK]
“Relaxation for Great Minds.” New York Times (8 March 1881): 8 [NYT online] [MCK]
“Picnic of the Pot Luck.” New York Times (15 March 1881): 3 [NYT online] [MCK]
Gilbert, Frank. “The Indian and His Literary Champions.” The Dial 2 (May 1881): 12-14. [RCL] [Transcendentalist magazine.] [MGK] [MCK]
Review of Shadows of Shasta. The New York Times. (1 May 1881): 10 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“Col. Had Poem Stolen by Joaquin Miller.” Black Hills Daily Times (5 May 1881): 4:4.
Subject: Bob Tingley [South Dakota Library Network Online Catalog] [MCK]
“The Drama”. Critic 1 (7 May 1881): 122 [RCL] [“Reviews of ‘49, The Danites in the Sierras), and Shadows of Shasta”] [PET]) [RCL gives title of review as Shadows of Shasta.] [MGK] [MCK]
Review of Shadows of Shasta. In “New Publications,” Daily Alta California. 33.11,342 (9 May 1881): 1:4 [CAL] [“The Poet of the Sierras has added his contribution to the increasing stock of literature in favor of the Indian and against the treatment he received from the government.”] [MGK]
Sketch about Miller. San Francisco Chronicle. (15 May 1881): 1:8 [CAL] [MGK]
Shasta Courier. (21 May 1881) [Yreka Journal mentioned as source for information that Miller “put his daughter [Maud] in a convent in Canada.”] [MGK]
Review of The Danites in the Sierras. Daily Alta California. 33.11,363 (30 May 1881): 1:5 In “New Publication.” [CAL] [Some realistic facts deleted from its original publication as The First Families of the Sierras.] [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller, the Pearl of Chivalry.” Shasta Courier. (18 June 1881) [Biography and very high praise of Miller’s work.] [MGK]
“Joaquin on the Wing.” Shasta Courier (25 June 1881). [Quotes an article previously shown here in a July 9, 1859 citation] [MGK]
“Record of Amusements: Dramatic and Musical. ‘Forty-Nine’.” New York Times (2
October 1881): 7 [NYT online] [MCK]
“Danites.” New York Times. New York. (9 October 1881): 7:3. [Miller answers charges that he did not author The Danites and ’49.] [MGK]
“A Lawsuit over ‘The Danites.’” New York Times. (12 October 1881): 3: 5 [MGK]
“McKee Rankin’s Grievance.” New York Times. (14 October 1881): 3: 4 [More about lawsuit.] [MGK] [NYT online] [MCK]
“Gen. Donaldson’s Trunks: A Reward Offered for the Thieves Who Stole Them from
the Transfer Wagon.” New York Times (31 December 1881) 1: 8 [NYT online].
“Two trunks were French, round topped, with wood stripe, and slate-
colored. They were marked ‘F.A.,’ and belonged to F. A. Allen, of No. 632 Fifth-Avenue. In these were apparel, both masculine and feminine, some articles of silverware, including a cup marked ‘Abbie Miller,’ and two salt-cellars marked ‘A.,’ two fur robes, and a hammock” [MCK]
[Possibly Abbie Leland Miller, wife of Joaquin Miller] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard from 109 W. 33d St., New York City. (19 January 1881): 3 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11282.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [Walter?] Bliss. (11 June 1881) [HON has in JM Box I: folder 3:2.] [MGK] Ad, New York Times (20 March 1881): 7. [NYT online] [MCK]

 
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