Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. In Classic Shades, and Other Poems. Chicago: Belford-Clarke & Company. 1890. 154 pages. [OAK] [RCL] [MES] [AAS and HUN have first editions.] [HON has a first edition inscribed by the author as well as a copy with a holograph letter, signed by the author, laid in.] [See also To Rachel in Russia, June 1, 1882; ...Four Songs.... To Russia..., 1906; To Russia, Dec. 10, 1908; Feb. 27, 1913.] [USC has a copy ex Libris Hamlin Farland.] [MGK] 1st edition [Middlebury College] [MCK]
-----. “How to Handle a Horse. Joaquin Miller on How to Ride and Manage the Horse.” New York: The Bok Syndicate Press. 1890. [HUN] Broadside. This single sheet is printed in three columns. At the head of the sheet is “Famous Men and Women Series 1890-91. This Article is Furnished by the Bok Syndicate Press, No. 23 Park Row, New York...” [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Joaquin Miller's Romantic Life Amongst the Red Indians: An Autobiography. London: Saxon & Company. 1890. 253 pages. [HON] has a holograph letter, signed by Miller, laid in their copy.] [AAS has a first edition and says...”Also published under titles: Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History, London, 1873; Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs, Hartford, 1874; Paquita, the Indian Heroine, Hartford 1881; and My Own Story, Chicago, 1890.] [MGK]
-----. My Own Story. [Pirated Copy] Chicago: Belford-Clarke Company. 253 pages. [PMC] [OHS] [OAK] [USC] [HUN] [UCSD] [LHM] [AAS has a first edition.] [HON has a first edition, in original paper wrappers and another issue, cloth bound, with a holograph letter, signed by Miller, laid in.] [BAL (6:196) notes that the wrapper is imprinted: The Household Library, No. 4, Vol 7, April 23, 1890. This publication is a revised edition of Unwritten History, 1874.] [UCSD] [Copyright, Joaquin Miller 1890. “I Dedicate this Book to The Dearest Friend of My Life in the Sierras and Later Wanderings in the Old World, Colonel James Vaughn Thomas, of Leon, Nicaragua, Who is Named and Known in these Pages as “The Prince.”] [Totally different from Life Amongst the Modocs.] [Wagner says that at some point Belford Clarke & Co. advanced Miller $2000 to edit twenty volumes of his writings, and then fail (Overland Monthly 75.2 (February 1920):120.] [MGK] [Ohio Historical Society] [MCK]
-----. Paquita, the Indian Heroine. Chicago. 1890. [UOL] [MGK]
-----. The Psalm of Death and Other Poems. Boston and New York. 1890 [CAM] [MGK]
-----. The Sheriff of Modoc County (ca 1890) [HON has this “A.MS. (unsigned) 15 leaves fol.” in JM Box 2: vol. 6.] [MGK]
-----. Game Regions of the Upper Sacramento, Early California Mining and the Argonauts, The San Joaquin Valley, and The New City by the Great Sea--San Francisco. In Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico (1888-1890). Edited by John Muir. Originally published as thirty parts, then ten, and finally as two volumes (J.Dewing and Company: 1888-1890). Reprinted as West of the Rocky Mountains (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1976). Chapters 10, 24, and 25 were reprinted in Chapters 3-5, 17-20, and 21-23, respectively, of Steep Trails. [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller's Bear Story.” In Werner's Reading and Recitations. No. 2. 1890. pp 30-32. Compiled by Elsie M. Wilbor. New York: Edgar S. Werner. [HON has two copies.] [MGK]
-----. Local and National Poets of America. Edited by Thos. W. Herringshaw. Chicago. 1890 [BAL] [MGK]
-----. Comanche. Arena 1(January 1890): 209-211 [MGK]
-----. “Wake Up Jonah.” (21 January 1890; August 7, 1897] [CAL: Juanita Miller's Sutro Library list.] [MGK]
-----. Immortal. The Independent. New York. (13 February 1890 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Rabbit Round-up.” Wide Awake. March. [HON] [MGK]
-----. A Parable of the Soul. The Independent. New York. (20 March 1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. A Parable of Happiness. The Independent. New York. (8 May 1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Tantalus--Texas. The Golden Era. (June 1890) [HON] [The Sierrian says he did not write the above poem; “but verily, it hath his branding iron upon it. He pronounces it bad but since it is too good to have been written by anyone else, it must have been written by the Sierrian. M. M.” (Madge Morris Wagner, Editor.)] [See other pub. 1881, 1893, and “O’er the Llano Estacado,” 1893.] [MGK]
-----. Nationalists. The Independent. New York (19 June 1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Some Notes on a Neglected Book.” Belford’s Magazine 5.26 (July 1890): 179-
185 [WC] [MCK]
-----. “Around the Rainbow.” The Youth's Companion 63 (3 July 1890): 368 [MGK]
-----. “The ‘Ideas’ in the Fourth of July.” The Independent. New York. (3 July 1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Song for the Masons of Alameda.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (19 July 1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Leaf from Joaquin Miller's ‘Own Story.’” Current Literature. (August 1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Cyclone.” Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. (October 1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Nights at Newstead Abbey,” Harpers New Monthly 81 (October 1890): 786-793 [HON] [MGK]
-----. A Parable of the Gates. The Independent. New York. (9 October 1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Lion and a Lioness: An Adventure and a Romance of a Courageous Woman”
Detached from The Newspaper Library 17 (November 1890): 7-10. Milwaukee, WI. Cramer, Aikens & Cramer. [UOL] [MGK] [WC] [MCK]
-----. “Noble Horse.” Mount Shasta Herald. l.4.11 (19 November 1890): 3: 3. Excerpted from The Independent [MGK]
-----. A Parable of Paradise. The Independent. New York. (27 November 1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Preaching to the Preachers.” Belford's Magazine. (December1890) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Race with Idaho Robbers.” St. Nicholas 18.12 (December): 138-142. [children's literature] [HON] [WWU] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Is It Worthwhile? The Wasp 25.745 (13 December 1890): 23: 3-4. [5 stanzas; see 1884 for just the first one.] [MGK]
-----. “Two Californians.” The Wasp. 25.745 (13 December 1890): 16:1-2. [HON]
[MGK]

Secondary Sources
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of the Pacific States: Essays and Miscellany. San Francisco: The History Company, 1890. Vol. 33: 600, 643-645. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. History of Washington, Idaho and Montana, 1845-1889. San Francisco: The
History Company, 1890. [HGT] [MGK] [MCK]
Clark, Susie Champney. The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate. Boston and
New York: Lee and Shephard and C. T. Dillingham, 1890. 193pp. 85-86, 168. [MOA] [WC] [MCK] Quotes from Miller on the city of San Francisco and the state of Colorado.
Reid, T. Wemyss. The Life, Times and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, First Lord Houghton. London: Cassell and Co. 1890.Vol. 2: 276-277. [RCL] [See also Reid 1891; Winn, Sept. 1953, California Historical Society Quarterly, p. 233.] [MGK] [MCK]
Scott, Harvey W. History of Portland, Oregon With Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches of Prominent Citizens and Pioneers. New York: D. Mason and Company, 1890 [Not seen] [MCK]
Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908). Poets of America. New York: Houghton,
Mifflin and Company. 1890 516 pages. [CCL:542] [MGK]
Editorial Comment. West Shore 16 (4 January 1890): 4. Re Miller’s comments on the use of the falls at Oregon City [MGK]
“A Legend.” Republican Free Press. Redding, CA. (19 April 19, 1890). [Mention of Miller’s residence in area.] [MGK]
Joaquin Miller’s My Own Story. New York Daily Tribune 8 (4 June 1890): 1 [MGK]
Bok, Edward W. Miller, from Edward J. Bok’s Syndicate Letter. as rptd. in
The Author (15 July 1890) [HON] [MGK]
Paraphrased quote from the New York World re Miller’s three cottages on his Oakland property, Redding Daily Free Press (9 August 1890) [MGK]
Shasta Courier. Shasta, CA. (23 August 1890). [Miller’s son, John [?], escapes from Salem, Oregon Penitentiary.] [MGK]
“Whitman’s Reminiscences: The Old Poet Talks Entertainingly - His Contempt for
Harrison.” New York Times (1 September 1890): 3 [MCK]
“Literary Notes.” New York Times (15 September 1890): 3 [MCK]
“The October ‘Harper’.” New York Times (23 September 1890): 4.
Joaquin’s “Newstead Abbey article will interest many readers”
“Literary Notes.” New York Times 13 October 1890: 3 [MCK]
My Own Story. Public Opinion 10 (18 October 1890): 46. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Editorial comment re Miller’s claiming credit for naming Idaho etc. West Shore 15 (15 October 1890): 100 [MGK]
Ad for To-Morrow’s Sunday Herald, New York Times (29 November 1890): 8.
Presenting “Joaquin Miller on a High Horse. The untamed Poet of the Sierras
cracks the whip of criticism over all creation.”

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to J.W. Hardy and others at the Western Reserve University on January 8, 1890 [HON has in JM Box I: folder 11:3.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [William Hayes Ward] from “The Hights,” O[a]kland, Cal[ifornia]. (1 August 1890): 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11290.] [MGK]
-----. 1890? Letter to [William Hayes] Ward from Bohemian Club, San Francisco, [California]. 2 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11292.] [MGK]
-----. 1890? Letter to [William Hayes Ward]. 1 p. [Incomplete, beginning of letter torn away.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11293.] [MGK]
-----. 1890? Letter to [William Hayes Ward]. [Tuesday] 1 p. [Addressed: Dear Doctor.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11291.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to “My Dear Sir” [April 12, 1890], [The Hights] [HON has in JM Box 1: folder 12.] [MGK]
-----. “A Race with Idaho Robbers.” N.P. [Twin Falls Public Library, Idaho], [WC].[MCK]
Bashford, Herbert, Miscellany, 1890-1928. Bancroft Library. [STANFORD - MELVYL] [MCK]
Book reviews of Joaquin Miller’s works. A collection of printed notices, reviews etc. cut
from periodicals and newspapers, individually mounted and chronologically
arranged . [Hon has in JM Box 5: part 1, 1869-1887; part 2, 1890-1930] [MGK]