1912

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Songs of Summer Lands. Chicago: W.B. Conkey. 254 pages. [UOL not sure if this book was 1912.] [See also 1892, 1893.] [MGK]
-----. Happy Days. By Joaquin Miller and Others. Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Company. 1912. [BAL] 6:210 was unable to locate a copy but an entry for it does appear in the 1912 The United States Catalog of Books in Print [MGK]
-----. Panama, Union of the Oceans. 1912. [BAL] 6:182, 203 notes that this work appeared as Light of the Southern Cross in Miller's 1923 Poetical Works [MGK]
-----. The Song of Peace. In Poems of Country Life. Edited by George S. Bryan. New York. 1912. [BAL] 6:215 notes that The Song of Peace appears on pp. 166-167 and was extracted from The Song of the Centennial, 1876 [MGK]
-----. The Voice of the Dove. Music by Charles S. Burnham. Boston and New York: White-Smith Music Publishing Co. [BAL] 6:208 notes that this sheet music has at the end of the title: “To Cecil Fanning.” It is reprinted from The Building of the City Beautiful, 1893 [MGK]
-----. Westward Ho! In E. Rickert and J. Patton's Complete American Lyrics. New York: Doubleday. 1912. [OAK] [MGK]
-----. “Andrew Carnegie: And Some Reflections Upon Mexicanized Young Men [Cigarette Users] of Today.” Overland Monthly 59.4 (April 1912): 353-358 [PMC] [OAK] [HON] [SPL] [MGK]
-----. Say, Charlie! [Charles Warren Stoddard.] Sunset Magazine 28.4 (April 1912): 486 [PMC] [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. Colombo, Christoforo. The Journal of Columbus’ first voyage August 3 to October 16, 1492. Includes “To My Log Cabin Lovers.” [UOL] Inventors’ Outlook, Washington, DC. 1912. 20 pages. [HON] notes that a poem is lacking on page 21. [BAL] 6:203 gives the title as The Journal of Columbus’ First Voyage, “reprinted with the possible exception of “To My Log Cabin Lovers”...written by Joaquin Miller for the dedication exercises of the Log Cabin, held on June 2, 1912.” [MGK] [University of Oregon Online Library Catalog] [MCK: Includes Columbus] [HBLL]
-----. Poem. Out West 36 (November 1912): 332 [CAL] “And full these truths eternal/O’er the yearning spirit steal, That the real is the ideal, And the ideal is the real.” [MGK]
-----. The Light is with Us. [HON] Cuba Libre. Columbus. [CAL] Out West 36 (December 1912): 382-384 [MGK]
-----. “California's Second Crop: A Closet Comedy of the Sierras.” 1912. Typed, signed ms., heavily edited. (PBAG auction May 28, 1998) [MGK]
-----. 1912-1913”The Poet Laureate of Alaska.” Introduction by Joaquin Miller in Samuel Clarke Dunham’s Men Who Blaze the Trail, and Other Poems. San Francisco, 1913. Written at “The Hights,” Fruitvale, Cal, December 1, 1912. [PET] [Elsewhere, Peterson notes that the book was published by Barse & Hopkins in New York.] [BAL (6:203) agrees with Peterson and gives the date as 1913.] [BAL (6:203) notes that the book is a reprint except for “The Poet Laureate of Alaska,” which appears on pp. 9-12.] [Also includes a poem Comrades of the Klondike by Miller, pp. 26, 27.] [HON says New York: Barse & Hopkins. 126 pages. Comrades of the Klondike on p. 26.] [HUN] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Bonsal, Stephen F. Edward Fitzgerald Beale: A Pioneer in the Path of Empire, 1822-
1902. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912. 312pp. 284-288.
[WC] [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Cairns, William B. A History of American Literature. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1912. 502pp [WC] [MCK] [See also 1916, 1921, 1930 and 1969]
Gaston, Joseph. The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912. Chicago: S. J. Clarke
Pub. Company 1912. Vol. 1: 615-18, 626 (portrait) [MCK] [MGK] [HGT]: 578, 615-617
Khayyam, Omar. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. New York: Dodge Publishing Co. 1912. [PMC states 5 illustrations of Miller appear in this and the 1905 edition.] [UOL holds the 1912 edition in its collection.] [MGK]
Noguchi, Yone. The American Diary of a Japanese Girl. London and Tokyo: Elkin Mathews and Fuzanbo, 1912 [WC] [MCK] [See also 1902]
Oregon Pictorial and Biographical History. S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1912. [FRS] [MGK]
Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain. Three Volumes. New York:Harper and Brothers, 1912. [MAR] [MCK] [Some later refs. say Four Volumes. New York & London, 1912 [MCK] Vol. I: 260, Vol. II: 461, 544.
In Volume I Paine notes that Joaquin Miller recalls from an old diary that he saw Menken, Mulford, Harte, Stoddard, Fitzhugh Ludlow, Twain, Orpheus C. Kerr, Artemus Ward, Gilbert Densmore, W. S. Kendall and Mrs. Hitchcock hanging out at the Golden Era office.

The references in Volume II are to Miller’s description of Twain upon meeting him and that Twain found a publisher for Miller.
Taylor, Marian. “Joaquin Miller, Poet: An Appreciation.” Overland Monthly 49. n.s. 63 1914? [See also 1914.] [MGK] [MCK cites PET as: Taylor, Marian. “Appreciation.” Overland Monthly 59(1912)]
Thompson, Colonel William A. Reminiscences of a Pioneer. San Francisco, CA. Mention of Miller appears on pp. 11-18, 33-35, and 45-47,62. [OAK notes that Miller leads company of miners against the Snakes on page 62.] [PMC incorrectly cites page 187.] [Col. Wm. A. Thompson was the editor of the Alturas, CA Plaindealer newspaper.] [See also pp. 175-183 for story of Ben Wright and the Modocs.] [MGK]
Walford, Lucy B. Memories of Victorian London. New York: Longman’s Green & Company. 1912. 351 pp. Also, London: Edward Arnold. [RCL] [MAR] [PET] [MGK] [PMC: pp. 174-175 of New York edition the author’s version of a breakfast at Lord Houghton’s.] [MGK]
Crook, G. H. “At Joaquin Miller’s Home; Poem.” Overland Monthly, n.s. 59 (January
1912): 82 [HGT] [PMC] [HON] [MGK] [MCK]
Martin, Lannie Maynes. “The Literature of California.” Out West Magazine, n.s.
3 (January 1912): 63-64, 98-99 [MCK]
“The Literature of California.” Out West Magazine. n.s. 3 (January 1912): 63-64 [RCL] [MGK]
Dedication of Miller’s Washington cabin. San Francisco Morning Call. (3 June 1912): 4: 1 [CAL] [MGK]
Miller poses for motion pictures. San Francisco Morning Call (12 June 1912): 18: 2
[CAL] [MGK]
Rounsevell, Elizabeth. “Joaquin Miller, The Grove-Builder.” The Neighbor IV.37 (June-July 1912): 1 (Ed. by C.S. King, Trustee for Kenneth Moffat King, Off. corner 38th & Penniman Aves., East Fruitvale.) (Picture of Juanita and Miller on steps.) [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller is in the ‘Movies.’” Boston Herald [MGK]
Carrie Stevens Walter. To Ina Coolbrith The Notre Dame Quarterly 4.3 (June 1912): 61 [Indirect reference to Miller] [MGK]
Maguerites Edwards’ portrait decision. San Francisco Morning Call (14 June 1912): 6: 4 [CAL] [MGK]
Bland, Henry Meade. “The Boyhood of Joaquin Miller.” Pacific Short Story Club
Magazine 5 (July 1912): 7-12 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Miller’s daughter welcomes delegates. San Francisco Morning Call (1 July 1912): 5: 2 [CAL] [MGK]
Miller ill. San Francisco Morning Call (10 July 1912): 5: 2 [CAL] [MGK]
Vaudeville offer declined by Juanita Miller. San Francisco Morning Call (12 July 1912): 7: 5 [MGK]
Miller’s annexation protest. San Francisco Morning Call (28 September 1912): 12: 3 [CAL] [MGK]
“Isaac Mossman Is Dead: Famous Pony Express Rider Passes at Roseburg.” The Morning Oregonian. Portland, OR. Saturday (12 October 1912) [LHM] [MGK]
Miller’s involvement with Woodrow Wilson rally. San Francisco Morning Call (26 October 1912): 9: 6 [CAL] [MGK]
James, George Wharton. “The Effect of California’s Isolation upon Literature.” Out
West Magazine, n.s. 4 (December 1912): 381-386 [MCK] [MGK: RCL says 382-384]
Bagley, Clarence B. “Transmissions of Intelligence in Early Days in Oregon.” Oregon
Historical Quarterly 13.4 (December 1912): 347, 362 [RCL] [OHS] [MGK] [MCK]
Who’s Who in America. 1912.

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to George M. Miller (12 April 1912) Frontier. (1932) Vol. 12.2 [“I have finished the Sierra poem and it is by far my best. Today I mail to Century a short poem on Heroes of the Titantic'“] [MGK]
-----. Letter to George Wharton James (2 May 1912) [Huntington Library, in JAMES (George Wharton) COLLECTION, Box 1 (uncatalogued).] [MGK]
-----. Letter to A[braham] V[an] D[oren] Honeyman from Fruitvale, Calif.. Nov. 21. 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 45662.] [MGK]
Miller, Juanita. Letter to Fred E. Woodward (18 July 1912) The Hights. [HON has in JM Box 3: folder (b)] [MGK]
Brooks, Fred Emerson, Papers, 1912-1923. Bancroft Library. [STANFORD - MELVYL] [MCK] [UCB]
Morse, Willard Samuel. Letters to and from various dealers, photographers, publishers, etc. 90 letters and memorabilia in loose leaf binders. 1912-1935. [ HON has in JM Box 6] [MGK]

 
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