1892

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. My Life Among the Modocs. My Life Among the Indians. The Midland Series, Vol. 2.16. Chicago: Morrill, Higgins & Co. 1892: 253 pages. [UOL] [PMC] [BAN] [OHS] [BAL] [MGK]
Also published as:
-----. Joaquin Miller’s Romantic Life Amongst the Red Indians. London,
1898.
-----. Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History. London, 1873.
-----. Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History. Introduction by
Malcolm Margolin. Afterword by Alan Rosenus. Berkeley: Urion P., 1996. 1873: 433 pp.
-----. My Own Story. Chicago: Belford Clarke Company, 1890. 253 pp.
-----. Paquita, the Indian Heroine. Hartford, 1881.
-----. Paquita, the Indian Heroine. Hartford: American Publishing
Company, 1885. 445 pp.
-----. Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs. Hartford, 1874
[MCK]
-----. The Danites in the Sierras. Chicago: Morrill, Higgins and Company. 1892. 258 pages. [OHS] [HUN: Revised edition of the First Families of the Sierras.] [MGK]
-----. Songs of the Sierras and Sunlands (Two Volumes in One) Chicago: Morrill, Higgins & Co. 1892. 309 p. [AAS has a first edition.] [BAL (6:197) notes that this is a reprint “save for a few notes. For other editions see under 1871, 1873, 1878.”] [Even So has some stanzas deleted from the poem as published in Boston in 1871.] [MES] [HON] [USC] [PMC says 1,000 copies of Songs of the Sierras were printed.] [MGK]
-----. Songs of Summer Lands. Chicago: Morrill, Higgins & Co. 1892. 254 pages. [PMC] [RCL] [OHS] [HUN] [USC] [HON has a copy inscribed by the author along with a holograph copy of Child of the Sun: the Silent Aztec, signed by the author.] [AAS has a first edition.] [BAL (6:207) notes that this book was reissued with the following imprints: “W.B. Conkey Company, Chicago (n.d., 1893), W.B. Conkey Company, Chicago (1893), Chicago W.B. Conkey Company (n.d.). Morrill, Higgins & Company sheets have been seen in later Conkey bindings.”] [Includes the poems, Songs of Summer Lands, The Sea of Fire, The Rhyme of the Great River (Parts I and II), Isles of the Amazons, The Ideal and the Real, A [Soil'd] Dove of St. Mark, Il Capucin [monk], Sunrise in Venice, A Garibaldian's Story, Sirocco, and Como.] [See also 1893, 1912.] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Songs of the Sunlands. Chicago: Morrill, Higgins & Co. 1892 [PMC] [MGK]
-----. The Story of Columbus. A Juvenile Edition. Cincinnati: The Russell Printing Co.,
1892. 12pp. [WC] [MCK]
“Poem Sail on! by Joaquin Miller on inside of wrapper./ Original printed wrappers, included in count of leaves” [WC]
-----. “?” in Francis Drake: Tragedy of the Sea. Boston and New York [CAM] [MGK]
-----. “?” in Mother and Other Poems Boston and New York [CAM] [MGK]
-----. America's Recitation Book. Compiled by Caroline B. Le Row. New York: E.S. Werner. 1892. 275 pages. [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Building of the City Beautiful. Chicago: Stone & Kimball. 1892 [PMC only, gives 1892--see 1893.] [MGK]
-----. Columbus in Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia. Compiled by J.M. Dickey. Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company. 1892 [BAL] [MNS says pp. 235-236.] [MGK]
-----. Columbus. In No. 36. Standard Recitations by Best Authors. Compiled by Frances P. Sullivan. New York: M.J. Ivers & Co. 1892 [BAL (6:197) notes that this is a “Reprint save for Columbus p. 22. Collected in Songs of the Soul, 1896.”] [MGK]
-----. He Blessed Them. A Song for Children's Sunday. Music by T.H.H. Boston: Louis H. Ross & Co. 1892 [BAL (6:207) notes that this sheet music has at the head of its title: “To Dorothy H.” It is otherwise Beyond Jordan from Songs of the Sun-Lands, Boston, 1873.] [MGK]
-----. How We Hung Red Shield. In Werner's Readings and Reflections No. 7. Compiled and arranged by Elsie M. Wilbor. New York: Edgar S. Werner & Co. 1892. 211 pages. [BAL (6:197) notes that the work, located on pp. 40-46, is elsewhere not located.] [HON] [MGK]
-----. Columbus. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. (January 1892) [HON] [MGK] [Mrs. Frank Leslie reputedly paid him $50 for this poem according to Wagner in Overland Monthly 75. 2 (February 1920): 120.) [MGK]
-----. Bring Me My Brother's Head. (16 January 1892) [CAL: Juanita Miller's Sutro Library list.] [MGK]
-----. Columbus Review of Reviews 5 (February 1892): 110 [MGK]
-----. Artesia of Tulare.St. Nicholas 19.4 (March 1892): 368-370. [children's literature] [HON] [WWU] [MGK]
-----. War. The Youth's Companion 65 (17 March 1892): 136 [MGK]
-----. Columbus. The Youth's Companion 65 (17 March 1892): 138. [Not found by UOL] [MGK]
-----. The Bravest Battle. San Francisco Morning Call. (31 March 1892): 6: 1 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. The Dead Day. San Francisco Morning Call. (16 April 1892): 6: 1 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Fighting Indians. The Warfare of Early Days in Eastern Oregon.” San Francisco Morning Call. (24 April 1892): 16: 1 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A California Hero: Hugh Slicer and His Career in the Golden State.” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 13:6. (1 May 1892): 13: 6 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Mount Shasta on Fire.” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 16:1. (8 May 1892): 16: 1 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “How We found I-DA-HO.” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 13:4. (22 May 1892): 13: 4 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Pony Express Riders.” [Ike Mossman] San Francisco Morning Call. (29 May 1892): 15: 1 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Across the Plains: Pioneers Who Made the Overland Journey.” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 12:3,4. (5 June 1892): 12: 3-4 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. Bret Harte defended by Joaquin Miller. San Francisco Morning Call. p. 14:7. (12 June 1892): 14: 7 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Old-Time Prospectors.” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 14:7. (19 June 1892): 14: 7 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Old-Time Gamblers.” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 15:4. (26 June 1892): 15: 4 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. Dawn Through the Golden Gate. California Illustrated 4 (July 1892): 214-215 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “How We Struck It.” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 15:1. (3 July 1892): 15: 1 [HON] [CAL] [Re: Winter of 1855, Pat Flannigan-banker at Coos Bay Oregon, Frank Campbell - of the Howling Wilderness, Hi Miller Williams, old Alva Boles, Charley Slicer and “Humbug” and Greenhorn.] [MGK]
-----. “They Were Going Home.” “Mining Camp Life in Early Days.” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 12:1-2. (10 July 1892): 12: 1-2 [HON] [CAL] [Re: Winter 1854, Fred “Judge” Adams, Frank Campbell-brother of the late Bartley Campbell (see 1879), Pat Flannigan, Ezekial Wells.] [MGK] [Elsewhere noted by MCK as “They Were Going Home: The Climax of the California Miner’s Dream.” A short biography of Miller’s mining days reprinted in Martin Lewis’ The Mining Frontier: Contemporary Accounts From the American West in the Nineteenth Century, 1967.]
-----. “Encounter with a Black Wolf.” San Francisco Morning Call. (17 July 1892): 16: 1 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “How to Make a Fortune.” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 15:4. (24 July 1892): 15: 4 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Adah Isaacs Menken: A Sketch of Her Career.” [1835- 1868] San Francisco Morning Call (31 July 1892): 15: 1-2. [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. A maxim with Arbor Day Cross letterhead dated 8/3/1892 “The Heights” stating, “Popularity is vulgarity, as a rule” is recorded by [HON] as “A.MS.S l leaf 4to.” and is located in Box I: folder 13;1 [MGK]
-----. “Free Kindergartens of San Francisco.” The Independent. (4 August 1892) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Prentice Mulford.” [1834 - 1891]. San Francisco Morning Call. p. 9:3-4. (7 August 1892): 9: 3-4 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
Reprinted in Margaret Guilford-Kardell’s [MGK’s] “Prentice Mulford” 1996. MGK also states that it was reprinted in the Overland Monthly (October 1895) and partially included in Miller’s Heart of the Land’s Heart, Call [San Francisco] 22 December 1895) [FST] [MCK]
-----. “Charles Stoddard.” [1843 - 1907] San Francisco Morning Call. p. 12. (14 August 1892): 12 [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. “California's Fair Poet (Ina D. Coolbrith).” [1842 - 1928] San Francisco Morning Call. (21 August 1892): 14: 6-7 [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. “Colonel Baker as a Poet.” [1827 - ?] San Francisco Morning Call. (28 August 1892): 9: 3-4 [See also Baker on Miller, p. 13:3.] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. “Joseph E. Lawrence.” [? - 1890] [“The Father of California Literature” died June 23, 1890.] San Francisco Morning Call. (4 September 1892): 13: 7-8 [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. “California's Arbor Day: A Plea for More General Tree Planting.” San Francisco Morning Call. (11 September 1892): 13: 7 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Helen Hunt Jackson: The Life Work of One of Our Most Gifted Writers.” [1830- 1885] San Francisco Morning Call. p. 11 or 13:7,8. (18 September 1892): 11 or 13: 7-8 [CAL] [HON] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. “Our Art Atmosphere: What California has Given to the World.” San Francisco Morning Call. (25 September 1892): 14:5-6 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “John Charles Frémont.” [1813-1890] San Francisco Morning Call. (2 October 1892): 14: 7 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Alfred Tennyson at Home.” San Francisco Morning Call. (9 October 1892) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Passing of Tennyson. [1809-1892] San Francisco Examiner. (9 October 1892) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Madge Morris Wagner.” [A Californian Poet.] San Francisco Morning Call. (9 October 1892): 14: 7-8 [HON] [CAL] [Editor of The Golden Era in San Diego.] [MGK]
-----. “California's Arbor Day.” San Francisco Morning Call. (11 October 1892) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From San Diego to Mexico.” The Independent. New York. (20 October 1892) [MGK]
-----. “Columbus Day--America's Progress During 400 Years.” San Francisco Morning Call. (21 October 1892): 1: 1 [HON] [CAL] [The Great Admiral. He was inspired by Christianity in His Search.] [MGK]
-----. “A True California Poet [Lucius H. Foote [1826-1913]].” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 14:1,2. (23 October 1892): 13: 1-2 [HON] [CAL] [Includes poem by Foote-El Vaquero, a favorite of Miller's.] [MGK]
-----. “He Loved California: Joaquin Miller's Tribute to J. Ross Browne [1821-1875].” San Francisco Morning Call. p. 11:4,5. (30 October 1892): 11: 4-5 [HON] [CAL] [Charles Warren Stoddard [1843-1909] believed J. Ross Browne [1821-1875] was the “Prince” in Shadows of Shasta and the “King of Tigre” in Memorie and Rime. [See Stoddard _____.] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. To the Unknown God. Dawn: In San Diego. The Arena 6.6 Edited by B.O. Flower. Boston, MA (November 1892): 732-742 Written under the name “Heine Miller.” [HON] [HUN] [PMC] [LHM] [A very powerful poem.] [B.O. Flower was editor of Boston's The Arena, 1889-1896.] [MGK]
-----. Passing of Tennyson. Critic. 21 (5 1892): 256 [MGK]
-----. “The Mississippi Delta.” San Francisco Morning Call 72.59 (6 November 1892): 13: 4-5 [HON] [CAL] [Barra Tarra, Blacks and Marsh Bears] [MGK]
-----. “Dialect in Literature.” San Francisco Morning Call. 72.166 (13 November 1892): 15: 3 [CAL] [HON] [See Skurb poem in Shasta Courier, May 21, 1859.] [MGK]
-----. “The Gospel of Toil: Joaquin Miller on the Dignity of Labor.” San Francisco Morning Call 72.173) (20 November 1892): 16: 1-3 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Some California Birds.” The Independent. New York. (24 November 1892) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Robert Browning.” [1812-1889] San Francisco Morning Call. 72.130) (27 November 1892): 14: 5-6 [CAL] [HON] [MGK]
-----. “To London.” San Francisco Call (27 November 1892): 5-6. [FST] [MCK]
-----. “Lord Byron: Some New Light on the Poet's Character, Newstead, Abbey Visited.” San Francisco Morning Call 73.4 (4 December 1892): 13: 5-6 [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. “A Great Novelist: George Eliot in Her London Home.” [1819-1880] San Francisco Morning Call 73.11 (11 December 1892): 13: 1-2 [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. “James Whitcomb Riley's visit to Miller.” San Francisco Morning Call. 73.15 (15 December 1892): 8: 1-2 (p. 27?) [Harry M. Tod was obviously the reporter who took James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) to visit Miller, but the piece sounds like Miller. It is followed by, “Poetic Readings: James Whitcomb Riley as a Reciter of Verse”, obviously by Joaquin Miller.] [See Tod, Harry M. 1892.] [MGK]
-----. “Poetic Readings: James Whitcomb Riley as a Reciter of Verse.” San Francisco Morning Call 73.15 (15 December 1892): 8: 1-2 [MGK]
-----. “Dante Gabriel Rossetti.” [1828-1882] San Francisco Morning Call.73.18) (18 December 1892): 13: 1-2 [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. Shasta Courier. Shasta, CA. (24 December 1892) [Long quote from Miller giving “hurrah for the rural editor...”] [MGK]
-----. “Algernon Charles Swinbourne.” [1837-1909] San Francisco Morning Call. 73.125 (25 December 1892): 13: 7-8 [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]

Secondary Sources
Bierce, Ambrose. “THE MORMON QUESTION By J-QU-N M-LL-R.” Black Beetles in amber. San Francisco, New York: Western authors publishing company. 1892. 280 p. (see also 1909) [MGK]
Garland, Hamlin. “The West in Literature.” The Arena 6 (1892): 645, 673. [PMC] [MGK]
“To Shasta’s Feet.” California Illustrated: Including a Trip Through Yellowstone Park. Ed. by F.K. Warren, R.B.S. Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. 1892: 66 same Miller story as in Frank, B.F. and H.W. Chappell 1881 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]
“Joaquin Miller.” The Critic (January 1892) [MAR] [MCK]
“Joaquin Miller retires to a Hermitage.” New York Daily Tribune. (24 February 1892: 2: 3 [MGK]
“Notes.” Critic. n.s. 17 (27 February 1892): 135. [RCL says, “Brief comment stating that a “special: from San Francisco declares that Miller has renounced the world and is living in a lodge [Wagner’s] back of the city of San Diego. He is in a state of depression over his son’s sentencing for stage robbery.”] [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“Saved a Poet’s Life: Story Told by W.S. Jameson of Puget Sound.” New York Times. (3 March 1892): 3: 4 [”He Cut the Arrow from Joaquin Miller’s Neck at the Battle of Castle Rock—Story of the Conflict—A Strange Meeting.”] [MGK] [MCK]
Shasta Courier. (26 March 1892) [Illustrated American quoted and states Miller “has turned hermit...back of San Diego.”] [MGK]
Bashford, Herbert. To Joaquin Miller. Overland Monthly 19 (April 1892): 446. [HON] [MGK]
“Literary Notes.” New York Times (13 June 1892): 3 [MCK]
Hurlbut, H.R. “A Day at the Heights.” San Francisco Morning Call (21 August 1892): 14: 7 [CAL] [HON] [MGK]
Baxter, Sylvester. “Walt Whitman in Boston.” The New England Magazine 12.6 (August 1892): 714-721 [MOA] [MCK]
Baker, Col. E.D. Miller as a poet. San Francisco Morning Call (28 August 1892): 13: 3 [CAL] [MGK] [See also Miller on Baker, p. 9:3-4.]
Comments about Miller’s poetry. Wave 9 (15 October 1892) [CAL] [MGK]
Bierce, Ambrose. “Prattle.” San Francisco Examiner (16 October 1892) Coolbrith Scrapbook, II: 82 Oakland Free Library. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Joaquin Miller Scrapbook [HON] [Bierce’s comments on Miller’s essay on the death of Tennyson.] [MGK]
“A Visit to the Home of the Poet of the Sierras.” The Student’s Pen (November, 1892): 11-13. [OAK] [MGK]
Tod, Harry M. [and Joaquin Miller]. James Whitcomb Riley’s visit to Miller. San Francisco Morning Call 73.15 (15 December 1892): 8: 1-2. [CAL] [MGK] [Harry M. Tod is obviously the reporter who took James Whitcomb Riley to visit Miller. This piece is followed by: “Poetic Readings: James Whitcomb Riley as a Reciter of Verse” obviously by Joaquin Miller. San Francisco Morning Call 83 (73 or 83?)(15), p. 8:1-2.]
“Notes.” Public Opinion 14 (24 December 1892): 270. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to [William Hayes] Ward from Tia Juana, Mexico (13 January 1892): 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11295.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to A[nna] M[orison] Reed. (7 August 1892) , The Hights. [HON has as an
illustration in Mrs. Reed’s Gethsemane p.16 (PS2397.2 L56)] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Swinton (?) (20 November 1892) [HON has an “A.L.S. 1p. 1g 4to.” with Arbor Day Cross letterhead to Swinton (?) dated 10/20/1892, “The Hights” in JM Box I: folder 13.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Joseph Marshall Stoddart, editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated Dec. 25, 1892 in California Historical Society Quarterly 32.3 (September 1953): 235 [MGK]
Dickey Mss. Indiana University.
Papers of John Marcus Dickey, secretary and biographer of James Whitcomb
Riley. Joaquin listed as one of the correspondents. [MCK]
Markham, Edwin. Letter (11 December 1892) Tompkins School, Oakland, [California]
[to] the Manager of “The Call.” In Markham Manuscript Collection, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY. [WC] [MCK]
“Markham requests reprints from "The Call" of articles written by Joaquin Miller. A note on the bottom indicates that his articles appear in both the Sunday and Weekly editions of the Call” [WC]
Papers, 1892-1967 (1935-1967). [WC] [UNIV OF WYOMING, AM HERITAGE
CTR] [MCK]
“Correspondence (1935-1967); the manuscripts and galleys and a small amount of
research materials for the books "Splendid Poseur," "Vicki," "Fool's Gold," and "Adah Isaacs Menken" (written by Joaquin Miller ca. 1892); 1 scrapbook; miscellaneous other writings by Marberry; and miscellaneous photographs.” [WC]

 
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