Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Joaquin Miller's Romantic Life Amongst the Red Indians: An Autobiography. 1898. London: Saxon & Co. [PMC] [BAN] [MGK]
-----. Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs. 1898. London reprint of 1874. [UOL] [MGK]
-----. The River of Rest; Chorus for Women's Voices. 1898. Op. 32, No. 1. Vocal score. Words by Joaquin Miller. Music by A.W. Platte. New York: G.Schirmer. [UOL] [BAL (6:207) notes that this work is in G. Schirmer's Collection of Oratorios and Cantatas and that it is reprinted from In Classic Shades, 1890.] [MGK] [University of Oregon Library Catalog] [MCK]
-----. Cuba Libre. Scott, Irving M., ed. War Poems (primarily the Spanish Civil War). San Francisco: Murdock Press, 1898. 147 pages. The commemorative volume was presented by The California Club, new & collected poems (some gathered from the likes of Harper's Weekly, Army & Navy Journal, & so on) & including many signal poets, especially but not exclusively Californians. Joaquin Miller, Emma Frances Dawson, John Kendrick Bangs, Will Carleton, Edwin J. Markham, Richard LeGallienne, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, & many more. [MGK]
Cuba Libre first read April 1, 1898 by Mrs. Frank Leslie at a Carnegie Hall Concert for the benefit of St. Andrew's One-Cent Coffee Stands. Cuba Libre. Printed as an unpaged insert at the beginning of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, XLV:5 (May 1898) where it was described as written for Mrs. Frank Leslie. [See also 1915] [MGK]
-----. The Defence of the Alamo. In Poems of American Patriotism 1776-1898. Selected by R.L. Paget. Boston: L.C. Page and Company. [BAL (6:200) notes that the work appeared on pp. 99-101 and was collected in The Complete Poetical Works, 1902.] [See also March 10, 1898.] [MGK]
-----. Dew Drops and Diamonds. 1898. Chicago. [BAL (6:214)] [MGK]
-----. Give Me the Desert. Anthology of Living American Poets, 1898. Arranged by Deborah Ege Olds. Cincinnati: The Editor Publishing Company. [BAL (6:200) notes that the work appeared on p. 8 and is otherwise not located.] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller Describes the Chilkoot Pass.” In Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms. 1898. Chicago: Hill Standard Book Co. p. 231 [VG] [MGK] [Balanced description of the good and bad parts of climbing Chilkoot Pass in 1897
-----. In Palestine and Other Poems. Compiled by Richard Watson Gilder. New York: The Century Company 1898. [See also 1873. Gilder was Assistant Editor of Scribner’s Monthly and later worked for The Century.] [MGK]
-----. In American Literature. Richardson, Charles F. ed. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1898. Vol. 1: vii; Vol. 2: 232-234. [RCL] [MCK]
-----. In Shoemaker's Best Selections...Number 25. Philadelphia. 1898. [BAL (6:214)] [MGK]
-----. War Poems. [Includes Cuba Libre.] Compiled by the California Club. San Francisco: The Murdock Press. Scott, Irving M., ed. War Poems. Compiled by the California Club. San Francisco. 1898. Murdock Press, 1898. 147pp. [See Cuba Libre above] [WC] [MCK]
-----. Spanish-American War Songs, 1898. Detroit, MI. Compiled by Sidney A. Witherbee [PMC] [MGK] Listed in “Joaquin Miller Books.” (60 entries) [OHS Clippings File] [MCK]
-----. Oakland, Alameda County: Representative of Oakland Residences. Illustrated Special Edition of the Oakland Tribune 1898 [MGK] [This and similar collector’s issues suach as 1888 also including Joaquin Miller et al references selling ca. $165.00 in 2004 [MGK].
-----. In Defence of the Alamo.Youth's Companion 72.10 (10 March 1898): 120:1. [UOL] [HON] [The Defence on MGK’s Xerox copy.] [MGK]
-----. “Daily Life in a Klondike Cabin.” Land of Sunshine/Out West 9.1 (June 1898): 16-23. [OAK] [CAL] [MES] [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: His Account of His Housekeeping Experiences in the Klondike Country.” From The Land of Sunshine. New York Times (25 June 1898): 492: 2 Saturday Supplement [MGK] [RCL] [MCK] [NYT Online: p. SRB429]
-----. “Joaquin Miller’s Funeral: The Poet of the Sierras Has Laid Plans for Cremation on a Lofty Mountain.” New York Times (3 October 1898): 7 [MCK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: Funeral Pyre.” New York Daily Tribune (3 October 1898): 6: 6

Secondary Sources
Bates, Katharine Lee. American Literature. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1898. 325 pages. [CCL: 207] [MGK]
Dodge, Orvil. Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, Oregon ca.1898. Dodge
Printing. No longer available but see [FGL] under Periodicals.[Sympathetic to Minnie Myrtle and many errata.] [MGK}
Gray, Harry Literary Digest. Vol. 16. 1898. [MGK]
Pancoast, Henry Spackman. An Introduction to American Literature. New York: H. Holt and Company. 1898. 393 p. [CCL: 323-324] [MGK]
Richardson, Charles F. American Literature. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 1898: Vol. 1, p. vii; Vol. 2, pp. 232-234. [RCL] [PMC says Vol. 2, pp. 215, 232.] [MGK]
Shasta Courier. Shasta, CA (15 January 1898). [Reports Miller lost an ear and two toes in a Klondike blizzard. Editor skeptical because original item appeared in the Examiner.]
Bierce, Ambrose. “Joaquin Miller on Joaquin Miller” San Francisco Examiner Sunday Morning (30 January 1898) [BB] [Excellent typical “Bitter Bierce” review of
The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller published in 1897. Bierce concludes:
“ …Despite his prolixity, his tiresome repetitions, his frequent hyperbole,and more frequent unnaturalness;despite too the generl thinness of his thought Mr. Miller has in my judgement the greatest gift of song of any American except Poe.. That he lacks the moral sanity and intellectual training to make the most of it is a misfortune that lacks little of the character of a national calamity.”] [MGK]
Gilchrist, Grace. “Chats with Walt Whitman.” Temple Bar Magazine 63 (February
1898): 200-212 [MGK]
“Briefer Mention.” The Dial 24(1 February 1898): 85. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Review of Songs of the Sierras. “Joaquin Miller, Browning and the Prince Imperial.” The Academy 53 (12 February 1898): 181-182. [RCL] [PMC] [BSL] [MGK] [MCK]
de Kay, Charles. “The Far West’s Poet: Joaquin Miller and His Verse.” The New York
Times (Saturday Supplement) (19 February19, 1898): 121 [RCL 46]. Online: p. BR121 [Review of The Complete Poetical Works] [MGK] [MCK]
Alden, William L. “London Literary Letter.” New York Times (5 March 1898): RBA155 [MCK]
Shasta Courier. (19 March 1898) [Wesley B. Curl, one of the posse of June 1859, says, “Miller given every opportunity to escape.”] [MGK]
“The Sierra Poet.” Land of Sunshine 8(April 1898): 280-281 [RCL] [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller After Forty Years.” The Literary Digest 16 (16 April 1898): 461-462.
[RCL] [MOA] [PMC] [MGK] [MCK]
Review of The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller. The Independent 50 (21 April 1898): 19 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“On the Collected Works of Joaquin Miller.” Literary Digest (23 April 1898) [MAR] [MCK]
Cheyney, John Vance. “Merits and Demerits of Joaquin Miller.” The Literary Digest 16 (23 April 1898): 43 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Breakfasting With Lions.” Youth’s Companion 72.17 (28 April 1898): 207: 1 [UOL] [MGK]
“The Sierra Poet.” In “That Which Is Written.” Land of Sunshine 8.6 (May 1898): 280-281. [RCL] [CAL] [CSC] [MGK]
Adney, Tappan. “News from the Klondike.” Harper’s Weekly 42 2168 (9 July 1898): 678 [RCL] [MAR] [MOA] [MGK] [MCK]
“Poet of the Sierras.” “All About the Klondike.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer 34.65 (20 July 1898): 9: 5-6 [MGK]
Shasta Courier. (30 July 1898) [Miller passes through Shasta County.] [MGK]
Adney, Tappan. “News from the Klondike: Lake Bennett to Dawson: Letter and Illustrations.” Harper’s Weekly (27 August 1898): 841-846 [WC] [MCK]
“Joaquin Miller.” The Book Buyer 17 (September 1898): 103 [RCL] [PET: 1900-1901] [MGK] [PMC says page 102] [MCK]
“Literary Journalism in Late Years.” New York Times (10 September 1898): BRA603 [MCK]
Place, Sterling. “The Tramp Poet.” New York Times (17 September 1898): RBA621 [MCK]
Adney, Tappan. “A Winter’s Work in the Klondike: Letter and Illustrations.” Harper’s Weekly (1 October 1898): 960-963 [WC] [MCK]
Miller’s planned lecture tour. San Francisco Morning Call (7 October 1898): 12: 7 [CAL] [MGK]
San Francisco Morning Call (9 October 1898): 17: 1 [CAL notes that, “Funeral pyre of (cuts)” included.] [MGK]
Miller’s coat for his lecture tour. San Francisco Morning Call (11 November 1898): 10:1 [CAL] [MGK]
Gilder, Miss. “The Books I Best Remember: Third Paper.” New York Times (12
November 1898): RBA752 [MCK]
“New Books: A Classified List from All the Publishing Houses in the United States.”
New York Times (16 November 1898): 2 [MCK]
“Other 4.” New York Times (18 November 1898): 4 [MCK]
Fitch, George Hamlin. “Authors at Home: Joaquin Miller on the Heights Back of
Oakland.” The New York Times (Saturday Supplement) (19 November 1898):
784. (Wrtten 26 October 1898) [MGK] [Online: p. BR784] [RCL] [Wagner, Harr] [MCK]
Reeve, Felix Alexander. “Lines by Wordsworth.” New York Times (19 November 1898)
[Online: p. BR770] [MCK]
C.W. C. “Haunting Lines By Wordsworth and Others.” New York Times (19 November 1898) [Online: p. BR770] [MCK]
Gilder, Jeannette L. “Haunting Lines by Joaquin Miller.” New York Times (26
November 1898) [Online: p. BR796] [MCK]
“Joaquin Miller Threatens Suit: A Correspondent of ‘Harper’s Weekly’ Accused of Having Libelled Him.” New York Daily Tribune No. 19,007 (29 November 1898): 7: 3 [MGK]
Miller’s plans to lecture in Chicago. San Francisco Morning Call. (3 December 1898):
3: 6 [CAL] [MGK]
“Questions and Answers.” New York Times (10 December 1898) [Online: p. BR837 [MCK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to A[loysius] McCormack,[his grandson] 1898: 2 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 15710.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [Charles Warren Stoddard] from “Hights” [Oakland, California] [12 August 1898): 3 p. [Addressed: My gentle gentle Charley.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11302.] [MGK]
Critic of the Chicago Times Herald. “A Critical Review of Joaquin Miller On The Platform.” Tare sheet, date unknown presumed to be 1898/99. Nine poems quoted from his 1897 The Complete Poetical Works on the reverse side of Xerox copy gifted to MGK.
“…Young in heart, as ever, and with an appreciation that encompassed every form of beauty, this kindly gentleman unfolded the lessons not found in books, recited poems with exquisite grace and delicacy and then plunged with hearty enjoyment into a description of his recent experiences in the Klondike.
It was something of a disillusionment when this poet with his Rip Van Winkle like aspect disappeared, only to return in the unpoetic furs and belongings of a Klondike prospector, but he had so much to say of an interesting character that the garment did not matter much, It’s the meat and ‘not’ the ‘platter’ that counts when real men talk.”