1911

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. The Danites in the Sierras done as a film version of the play by Selig Polyscope Company 1911, possibly from McKee Rankin’s Adaptation [MGK]
-----. Elder, Paul.Compiler. California - The Beautiful: camera studies by California artists; with selections in prose and verse from western writers [MGK]
----- “Mr. Tennyson’s Fairies.” Kindergarten Gems For Home and Kindergarten.Akron, Ohio:The Saalfield Publishing Company , 1911 rpt. from 1905 [DF] [MGK]
-----. THE MOJAVE DESERT. Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes (January 1911) [MGK]
-----. The Bravest Battle. [By the mothers of men.] The Era. (January 1911) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Columbus. Education 73 (6 February 1911): 188-189 [PMC] [MGK] [See also 1892.]
-----. Our Heroes of Today. The Era 7.1 (April 1911) [MGK]
-----. With God Apart. Smart Set. (June 1911) [HON] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Bates, Katherine Lee. American Literature. New York: The Macmillan Co. 1911. 207. [MGK] [RCL] [“Eugene Field (1850-1895) of Chicago, James Whitcomb Riley (born 1853) of Indiana, both distinguished for their humorous and childhood verse, and Joaquin Miller (born 1841) of Oregon, whose first work, Songs of the Sierras (1871), had in it much of the spirit of the wild land, the colour of the desert, the free, adventurous character of the filibuster, all strangely mixed with pseudo-Byronic passions.

“Apart from all these, whether minor or major poets, stands Walt Whitman (1819-1892), whose Leaves of Grass (185 5) first appeared before the war, but whose fame is associated rather with its successive editions and its companion volumes, and definitely dated, perhaps, from 1867. He received attention in England, as did Miller, on an assumption that his works expressed the new and original America, the unknown democracy, and he has had some vogue in Germany mainly owing to his naturalism. His own countrymen, however, steadily refuse to accept him as representative of themselves, and his naturalism is uninteresting to them, while on the other hand a group apparently increasing in critical authority treat his work as significant. It is, in general, only by those few fine lyrics which have found a place in all anthologies of American verse that he is well known and highly valued in his own land.”] http://87.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AM/AMERICAN_LITERATURE.htm
Merwin, Henry Childs. The Life of Bret Harte: With some Account of The California Pioneers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.The University Press Cambridge, 1911 [see 1967 reprint] [MGK]
The Independent 74 [MGK]
The Pacific Short Story Club Magazine 4.1 (January 1911) (unnumbered pages between
p. 30-31. Two pictures at Miller’s “Hights” probably taken in 1910 with Miller and Henry Meade Bland on the occasion of a visit of the Short Story Club from San Jose Normal School. [DF] [MGK]
Frémont’s monument (cut). San Francisco Morning Call (22 January 1911): 26: 1 [CAL] [MGK]
Education 73 (6 February 1911): 188-189 [PMC] [MGK]
“Miller’s serious illness.” San Francisco Morning Call. (16 February 1911): 1: 2 (21
March 1911): 20: 2 [CAL] {MGK]
“Joaquin Miller Dying: Taken to a Hospital and His Brother Called to His Side.” New
York Times (16 February 1911): 1 [MCK]
Miller taken to the Fabiola Hospital on the 15th suffering from a severe
cold and nervous breakdown after going to a lecture in Oakland and is not expected to survive the night. A short description of “the Hights” follows.
“Miller’s wife and daughter to care for him.” San Francisco Morning Call (30 March 1911): 7: 3 (31 March 1911): 2: 2 [CAL] [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller Recovers Health.” New York Times (1 April 191): 12 [MGK] [MCK]
Noted that early in the month, Miller’s death seemed imminent but that he has now recovered and returned to “the Hights.” His estranged wife (separation for ten years) and daughter (last two years, a student of art in New York City) are with him.
London, Jack. (Actually written by George Sterling but sold under London’s name). The First Poet. Century Magazine (June 1911): 251-255. [Although Miller is not mentioned this poem is possibly in honor of him in light of all the other publicity re Miller at this time. Miller had published in Century and its forerunners since 1875.] [MGK]
Miller’s Washington Park cabin. San Francisco Morning Call (13 June 1911): 1: 2 (15 June 1911): 2: 6 [CAL] [MGK]
Bland, Henry Meade. “Sketch of the First Western Literary Period.” Pacific Short Story Club Magazine 4 (July 1911): 5-7 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Russell, Thomas C. “Harte vs. Miller, From the California Mail Bag” in “Notes.” San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1734 Nineteenth Ave. The California Reprint 1.1 (July 1911): 7 [HUN] [MGK]
“Move Joaquin Miller Cabin: Relic Will be Taken from Washington to Wilds Poet
Loves.” New York Times (2 July 1911) [Online: C6] [MCK]
Notice of the California Society moving the cabin from Rock Creek Park to Oakland. Miller had been visited by Congressman Knowland, who was there to check the authenticity of the cabin. The article provides many details about the materials used to build the cabin - the logs from Oregon, the stone left over from the building of the great National monument (Washington monument??). The author also notes that many people visited and befriended Miller in Washington including President Arthur, President and Mrs. Cleveland and Justice Field.
“Move Joaquin Miller Cabin: Relic will be taken from Washington to Wilds Poet loves. Congressman Knowland asked by California Society in Washington to authenticate the Cabin.” New York Times (2 July 1911): 6: 2 [Article mistakenly says Rock Creek Park, California. It should be Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C.] [MGK]
“Sierra Poet’s Cabin Will be Dedicated.” OHS Scrapbook 37, p.127. [MCK]
“Craftsman.” New York Times (16 July 1911) [Online: BR11] Notice of “Joaquin Miller: His Life and His Art” by Henry Meade Bland [MCK]
“To Preserve Miller Cabin: Friends of the Poet move His former Washington Home.” New York Times. Sec. 4, p. 10:2. (30 July 1911): Pt. 4: 10: 2 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
James, George Wharton. “Charles Warren Stoddard.” National Magazine, Boston (August 1911): 667-668 Reprinted in the California Scrapbook 1945 [MGK]
James, George Wharton. “The Influence of California Upon Literature.” An address delivered to the American Library Association annual meeting held in Pasadena, CA. Reprinted in “California Scrapbook” 1945 [MGK]
Bland, Henry Meade. “The Poet of the Sierras.” The Craftsman 20 (August 1911): 496-504. New York. [PMC] [RCL] [PET] [MAR] [MGK] [MCK] [MGK: RCL gives title as, “”Joaquin Miller: His Life and His Art.”]
Miller’s new poem. San Francisco Morning Call. (6 August 1911): 40: 4 [CAL] [MGK]
Bassett, J.M. “Joaquin Miller’s First Visit to Siskiyou County.” As told by J.M. Basset[t] in Early Days in Siskiyou. Portion in Farmer and Miner, Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, August 23 and 30. (On microfilm in the Siskiyou Co. Library, Yreka, CA.) (On microfilm in the Shasta College Library, Old Oregon Trail, Redding, CA 96001.) [Bassett was also excerpted in The Searchlight, Redding, California. Vol. 20(203), (29 August 1911): 1: 3-4.] as Anonymous 1911 Report of J.M. Bassett’s memory of Joaquin Miller as a cook in Siskiyou County when a young man. The Searchlight. Redding, CA. (29 August 1911): 1.]
James, George Wharton. “Joaquin Miller, the Poet of Peace.” National Magazine
35 (October 1911): 59-75 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Miller’s Washington Park cabin. San Francisco Morning Call (22 October 1911): 17: 5 [CAL] [MGK]
“Bard Owns Power Site.” ??? Eugene, OR (1 November 1911) OHS 47, p. ??
Secondary titles read “Joaquin Miller and Brothers to Build Plant” and “Poet of
Sierras Locates Land on Siuslaw River, Going to Place in Two-Wheeled Cart.” [MCK]
Miller deeds home to daughter. San Francisco Morning Call (23 November 1911): 9: 1 [CAL] [MGK]
Millard, Bailey. “Authors and Publicity.” The Bookman 34 (December 1911): 398.
[RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Miller’s thanksgiving sentiments. San Francisco Morning Call (1 December 1911): 10: 4 [CAL] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Bland, Henry Mead. Letter (22 February 1911) San Jose, California to Mr. Edwin
Markham, New York City. In Markham Manuscript Collection, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY [WC] [MCK]
“Henry hasn't heard from Edwin. He has heard from some of Edwin's Bereley [sic] friends that he will be coming west this summer. He would like Markham to come to the Normal School Commencements to read from his poems and they will pay him. Henry disscusses [sic] the arragements [sic]. Henry would like to use some photos and in an upcoming Short Story Club Magazine Cover of Edwin. He asks Edwin to autography [sic] a copy of “The Joy of the Hills,” to be put into glass as a memory at the Normal School. Henry is daydreaming about Charles Warren and Stoddards sailing in the sky. He, and Herbert Bashford went to see Joaquin Miller in the hospital” [WC]
Bland, Henry Mead. Letter (31 March 1911) San Jose, California to Mr. Edwin
Markham, West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. In Markham Manuscript Collection, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY [WC].
“Henry has been busy with school and lectures. Mr. Riis feels his lecture
was a success. He spoke to Herbert Bashford and he wishes to be kindly remembered. Henry and Herbert are involved a great deal. They are planning to buy lots on Aleeu Rock Slopes overlooking the Valley. It is called Linda Vista. He meet Mark Sickal and old school friend of Markham's. Joaquin Miller gave back ther [sic] Hights and apperas [sic]to be on the way to recovery” [WC]
Noguchi, Yone.Letter to “Dear Friend” (Edmund Clarence Stedman) 1911, Kamakura,
Japan. [HON has in JM Box 7] [MGK]

 
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