1889

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. The Danites in the Sierras. Chicago: Belford-Clarke Co. 1889. [HUN] [BAL (6:196) notes that the cover title is The Danites of the Sierras. It was issued as No. 2, Vol. 6, of The Household Library under the date of Dec. 9, 1889. This edition is revised. “For earlier editions see First Fam'lies in the Sierras, 1875; First Fam'lies of the Sierras, 1876; The Danites in the Sierras, 1881. Contains a preface, pp. vii-x, not present in the edition of 1881.] [MGK]
-----. Poems by Joaquin Miller. Boston: Roberts Bros. Cambridge: University Press. 1889. John Wilson & Son. C.H. Miller. 1018 pages. [UOL] [PMC] [BAL (6:207) notes, “Printed from the plates of earlier books; unaltered pagination.”] [See also 1871, 1873, 1875, 1878, 1887.] [MGK]
-----. Boys' and Girls' New Pictorial Library. Introduction by Rev. W.H. Milburn. Chicago. [BAL] [MGK]
-----. Christ and the Children and The Closing Hymn in the upper Room. In Belford's Annual, 1889-1890. Chicago. [BAL (6:213) notes that the former poem appears on p. 24 and is extracted from Beyond Jordan, Songs of the Sun-Lands, 1873. The latter poem appeared as The Last Supper in Songs of the Sun-Lands, 1873.] [MGK]
-----. “?” In The Cup of Youth and other Poems. Boston and New York. 1889. [CAM] [MGK]
-----. Half-Hours with the Best Humorous Authors. Selected and arranged by Charles Morris. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. 1889. 4 Vols. [BAL] [MGK]
-----. Harper's Fifth Reader: American Authors. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1889. [BAL (6:213) notes that Miller's work appears in this publication and that this book was, “Reprinted and reissued by The American Book Company not before 1890.”] [MGK]
-----. Mothers of Men [Untitled poem], Army of the Potomac, and The Bravest Battle That Ever Was Fought. In The Elocutionist's Annual Number 17. 1889. [BAL (6:182, 196) notes that Army of the Potomac appears on pp. 71-73 and was an extract from Beyond the River. The Bravest Battle... appears on pp. 104-105 and was collected in Complete Poetical Works, 1897.] [MGK]
-----. Oakland. In Picturesque Oakland, a book of views published by Henry R. Knoll (also listed as Knapp) 1889. [OAK] [MGK]
-----. Olive Leaves and Untitled poem in Borrowings. San Francisco. 1889. [BAL (6:214) notes that the untitled poem appears on p. 60. Olive Leaves is from Songs of the Sun-Lands, 1873.] [MGK]
-----. Some Famous Pseudonyms. Well-Known Authors Tell the Stories of Their Nom de Plumes. Edited by Edward W. Bok. New York: Bok Syndicate Press. 1889. [BAL (6:196) notes that this is a single cut sheet that contains an autobiographical statement by Miller.] [MGK]
-----. Tennyson's Fairies and Other Stories. Karl H. Goodwin, compiler. Boston: D. Lathrop Company. 1889. 320 pages. [HUN] [BAL (6:213)] [Children's story about Fairies and Rabbits on pp. 1-7.] [See 1883 for previous publication.] [MGK] [HUN] [MCK]
-----. “Colorado Madge.” The Golden Era (January 1889): 12-16. [HON] [From Memorie and Rime, Funk and Wagnalls, publishers.] [MGK]
-----. “To ‘A Veteran of the Mexican War.’” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (19 January 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Gold that Grew by Shasta Town. St. Nicholas Magazine. [Children's literature.] Vol. 16.4 (February 1889): 243-245. [HON] [WWU] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “To the Land Butchers of California.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (16 February 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. For the Birthday of Queen Victoria. This poem in eight lines and the refrain is dated 2/20/1889 from “The Hights.” [HON has it in JM Box 2: vol. 7(1).] [MGK]
-----. “In the Grand Plaza of Mexico.” The Youth's Companion 62 (21 February 1889): 97. [HON] [UOL] [MGK]
-----. Judge Not. The Youth’s Companion 62 (14 March 1889): 130. [UOL] [MGK]
-----. “Building a Ranch by the Pacific.” The Independent. New York. (28 March 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The New Babylon.” The Independent. New York. (27 June 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Pacific Coast ‘Colonies.’” The Independent. New York. (4 July 1889) [Written Tulare, Cal. June 15th extolling colony development from Aurora, OR, Brooks Farm from Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller through Mr. Marks of S.F., Tulare and Merced.] [HON] [MGK]
-----. Oregonian (7 July 1889) [Unseen] [MCK]
-----. “In Northern California (Shasta County).” The Independent. New York. (18 July 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Words on the Wing.” Pacific States Illustrated. (20 July 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Head of the Great California River.” The Independent. New York. (25 July 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Captain Duck.” [Chief Keluche and Slim Jim.] St. Nicholas 16.10 (August 1889): 753-756 [children's literature] [HON] [WWU] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “Down in Oregon.” The Independent. New York. (1 August 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Portland, Oregon.” The Independent. New York. (8 August 1889) [MGK]
-----. “In the Continuous Woods.” [Washington State] The Independent. New York. (15 August 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “In the Great Emerald Land.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (17 August 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Tacoma.” The Independent. New York. (22 August 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From Tacoma to Spokane.” The Independent. New York. (5 September 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “I-dah-ho.” The Independent. New York. (12 September 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Montana.” The Independent. New York. (19 September 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From the Tops of the Rockies.” The Independent. New York. (26 September 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Name ‘Idaho.’” The Morning Oregonian 27. 9046 (30 Sept 1889): 5 [MCK] [MGK]
-----. “In the Land of the Dakotas.” The Independent. New York. (3 October 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The New Duluth.” The Independent. New York. (10 October 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Great New City of Twincité.” The Independent. New York. (17 October 1889) Written in St. Paul, Minnesota. [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Out of the Wilderness.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (19 October 1889). [HON] [See 1907.] [MGK]
-----. “The City [St. Louis] by the Great River.” The Independent. New York. (31 October 1889) [MGK]
-----. “In Kansas City.” The Independent. New York. (7 November 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From Kansas City to Pueblo.” The Independent. New York. (16 November 1889) [MGK]
-----. “The Great Wood World.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (16 November 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From Pueblo to Colorado Springs.” The Independent. New York. (21 November 1889) [MGK]
-----. “Denver.” The Independent. New York. (28 November 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Olive. The Century 39.2 (December 1889): 239. [OAK] [HON] [MGK] [MOA] [MCK]
-----. “From Pueblo to Salt Lake City.” The Indepedent. New York. (5 December 1889) [MGK]
-----. “Great Salt Lake City.” The Independent. New York. (12 December 1889) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From Salt Lake City to the Pacific.”The Independent. New York. (19 December 1889 [HON] [MGK]
-----. Under the Syrian Stars. Bellingham Bay Reveille. Bellingham, WA. (27 December 1889). [See also 2 February 1888.] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Colorado Mineral Palace: Pueblo, Colorado. Broadside. [Pueblo, Colorado: s.n],
1889. [WC] [MCK]
“Contains extracts of articles, in six columns, from the Denver News (Sept. 7 and Nov. 17), Denver Republican (Sept. 27), an article by Stanley Wood in the Great Divide for December, an article by Joaquin Miller, and a speech by Judge Royal, ‘presenting a fine painting of the Colorado Mineral Palace to the Silver Convention’” [WC]
History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington. Portland, Oregon: North Pacific History Company 1889, 2 vol. [HGT] [MGK] [MCK]
Horner, John B. “The Miller Family in Literature.” Oregon Native Sun 1 (August 1889):
200-207. [RCL] [MCK]
Mulford, Prentice. Prentice Mulford’s Story: Life by Land and Sea . . . New York: F. J.
Needham, 1889. 299pp. [WC] [MCK]
-----. Prentice Mulford’s Story; or, Life by Land and Sea; a Personal Narrative.
With a Preface and Conclusion by Arthur Edward Waite. London [sic Loudon]: W. Rider & Son, 1913. 297pp. [WC] [MAR]
-----. Prentice Mulford’s Story. 1st California Edition. Oakland: Biobooks,
1953. 145pp. [WC] [MUL]
Smyth, Albert H. American Literature. Philadelphia: Eldredge and Brother, pp. 148-150. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Stewart, Isabella Graham Duffield. Memorial of Mrs. Morse Stewart. p. 231. [CAL] [MGK]
“An Appreciative Public: The Liberal Manner in Which it Treated Actor M’Cormack.” [sic] New York Times (11 January 1889): 1.
Article dated January 10, Cherokee, Kansas. Story of the eccentric Maud Miller and her husband, London McCormack touring with’49, arriving broke in Cherokee and followed by a creditor, a hotel-keeper from McCune, Kansas. A fight resulted with McCormack winning against the hotel-keeper and winning the approval of watchers who then rented the Opera House for a performance of ’49. [MCK]
Syndication set for The Buried River (novel). San Francisco Morning Call. (26 January 1889): 2: 2 [CAL] [MGK] [Elsewhere incorrectly referred to as Curied River.]
The Grant County News 10.46 (7 February 1889): 3, col. 1-d 1 Asbury- Editor. [DCS] [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller has completed a novel. ‘The Curied Riveer.’[sic] [“Buried River” also elsewhere cited but never located.] [MGK]
Miller offers site for pest house to Alameda County. San Francisco Morning Call (26 February 1889): 2: 5 [CAL] [MGK]
“Memorial Day at the Veteran’s Home.” The Weekly Calistogian (29 May 1889) [MGK]
“…Rev. C.C. Stratton, of Mills College, will deliver the address, and Joaquin Miller will read ‘an original poem.’”
“The Poet of the Sierras:An Interesting Chat With the Famous Joaquin Miller.” The Sunday Oregonian 8. 32 (7 July 1889): 8 :1,2 [MCK] [MGK] [An interview in the offices of the Esmond Hotel in Portland en route to Tacoma and on to Omaha, Pueblo etc..]
“Letter from the Editor. –Portland, July 6, Dear News: - Grant County News 11. 16 (11 July 1889): 3 : 3 item 3. [DCS] [MGK]
“ I [D.I. Asbury-Editor] was accorded the honor day before yesterday of meeting Hon. Joaquin Miller, …” who enquired after the health of everyone etc. [MGK]
“Local Brevities.” Republican Free Press. Redding, CA. (13 July 1889) [Miller was in Redding, CA.] [MGK]
West Shore 15 (5 October 1889): 100. [MGK]
“When Joaquin Miller gets through claiming to have named, discovered or originated everything on the Pacific coast, which time will probably be coincident with his death, there will be more attention paid to those who knew about these things when the romancing mock poet was in short pants…” and more derogatory remarks. [MGK]
“All of the Olden Time, Sheriff Gray etc.” Grant County News 11.30 (17 October 1889): 3 : 3, item 1. [DCS] [MGK] [Reprint of an article by the Boise City Statesman about W.P. Gray, Sheriff of Canyon City, staying at the Overland and of his recollections of Joaquin Miller and his days in Canyon City.]
Bashford, Herbert. “Joaquin Miller.” The Washington Magazine, Seattle, WA: The Washington Magazine Co. 1.4 (December 1889): 8-11 [RCL] [His salary and a rewrite anecdote re: The Independent, New York.] [Courtesy of Marty West, Lane County Historical Museum.] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. 1889. Letter to John P. Irish quoted in “Some Memories of Joaquin Miller.” Out West. 7.2 p. 85. 1914. [MGK]
-----. Letter to Earl Marble. (15 January 1889) [HON has in JM Box I: folder 11.] [MGK]
-----. Letter, (30 January 1889) Oakland, California to [Edwin] Markham,
[Oakland, California]. [MARK MSS] [MCK]
“Acknowldeges [sic] receipt of another $50. It appears that Markham was buying a lot from him in installments. Invites Markham to visit the
Heights [sic] and mentions the roses” (MARK).

 
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