1926

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Columbus: A Short Cantata for Women's Voices. Music by E.S. Hosmer. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company; New York: Chas. H. Ditson & Co.; Chicago: Lyon & Healy, Inc.; London: Winthrop Rogers, Ltd. 1926 [See also 1915.] [MGK]
-----. Masterpieces of American Humor. [BAL (6:182): Girard, Kansas.] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller's Tribute to His Wife.” Overland Monthly 84.1(September 1926): 286-288. [PMC] [OAK] [SPL] [MGK] [MCK]

Secondary Sources
Bland, Henry Meade. California: A Song of the Ultimate West, and Other Poems. San
Jose: The Pacific Short Story Club, 1926. 40pp [WC] [MCK]
California’s Stately Hall of Fame. Stockton, California: College of the Pacific. [RCL: 357, 359, 366, 381-385, 443, 444, 556, 643] [MGK]
Harte, Geoffrey Bret, ed. Letters of Bret Harte. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1926. London: Holder and Stroughton, 515pp. 8, 9, 246, 289 [RCL] [MAR] [PET] [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
Hughes, Glenn. “Poetry of the Northwest.” In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926
and Yearbook of American Poetry. Edited by William S. Braithwaite. Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1926. 52, 55 RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Hunt, Rockwell D. California and Californians. 1926. p. 183 [CAL] [MGK]
Hunt, Rockwell D. California’s Stately Hall of Fame. Stockton, California: College of
the Pacific, 1926. 357, 359, 366, 381-85, 443, 444, 556, 643. [RCL] [WC - no edition from 1926, only following 1950 edition listed] Stockton: College of the Pacific, 1950. 675pp. [WC] [MCK]
Read, Frank R. Cincinnatus Hiner Miller: A Critical Biography. Unpublished dissertation, University of Virginia. [LAW spells the last name “Reade.” [FST] and [RCL] spell it “Read.”] [MAR] Cited in Joaquin Miller by O. W. Frost, 1967, New York: Twayne Publishers [MGK] [MCK]
Saalburg, Charles W. “San Francisco of the ‘80s Abounded in Notables; C. W. Saalburg
Has Memories of Mark Twain, Joaquin Miller, Bernhardt, Davenport and Warfield.” New York Times (3 January 1926): 17, 23.
Saalburg, who started at The Wasp as an 18-year old cartoonist,
remembers of Joaquin:
“As regular as clockwork, Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras,
would come in with a poem for which he received exactly $3. I
can still see him as he was then - long hair, straggling mustache, horribly shabby clothes. He was one of the most taciturn men that ever lived - he would just turn in his poem, receive his money and walk out without a word. He lived in a tumbledown shack in the hills back of Oakland and never let any one come near him. He was the perfect hermit.

I did have one luncheon with him, though, that I don’t think I’ll
forget. I used to [go] sketching once a week or so at Berkeley, on the other side of the bay, and after I had finished work I’d have luncheon at a queer little French place. One day when I ran into Joaquin Miller in Oakland I asked him to join me. We sat down at the table and the waiter asked Miller what he wished to order. I asked for a plain omelette while Miller sat there studying the menu. Finally, he grunted, “Omelette souffle.” I most certainly didn’t know what an omelette souffle might be, and I’m sure that Miller didn’t, either, because his jaw fell when, half an hour or so later the waiter came staggering in with the biggest omelette, I’ve ever seen. It was about half a yard wide, and cognac blazed merrily all over it.

The sad ending to the story is that the omelette souffle alone cost
$3 and I had only $1.50. I had to promise the proprietor to pay for my guest’s luncheon the next time I came out.

On one occasion Miller drifted into the Wasp office. It was a week or so before Thanksgiving and he had evidently been marketing, as he carried a long bag from which hung out all that was left of a chicken. He had shoved the chicken into the bag anyhow, and while he walked along the street lost in thought half a dozen dogs of the neighborhood had followed him, taking large nips at the fowl. I should say that they had gotten away with half of it.”
Sterling, George. “Joaquin Miller.” The American Mercury 7 (February 1926): 220-229
[PMC] [HON] [CCL] [CAL] [RCL] [OHS Clippings File] [HGT] [MAR] [PET] [MGK] [MCK]
Benson, Allan L. “A Close-Up of Joaquin Miller: When the poet of the Sierras Called to See Some Friends in Washington.” The Dearborn Independent 26.3 (13 March 1926): 26-27 [RCL] [HGT] [MGK] [MCK]
“’As a harmless liar Joaquin was never excelled . . . Joaquin told whoppers
just to be a good fellow, to amuse or to entertain his auditors or to shock them’” (Quoted in HGT, page 3)
Mighels, Ella Sterling (Cummins). “Justice to Joaquin Miller.” Overland Monthly n.s. 84 (July 1926): 216-217 [PMC] [HON] [CAL] [RCL] [PET] [MGK] [MCK]
Juanita Miller woos polar bear. San Francisco Examiner. p. 1:4. (19 July 1926): 1: 4 [CAL] [MGK]
Review of Shadows of Shasta. Oregonian (28 July 1926) “’Balderdash very characteristic of “Wakeen”!’” [MCK]
MacInnes, Tom. Chinook Days. September 1926. One thousand copies printed for the
opening of Grouse Mountain Highway and Resort. Canada. [p. 118 MacInnes
writes of having seen.Joaquin Miller in Skagway in 1897 and incorrectly reports
Miller had to return South with a sprained ankle.] [MGK]
McArthur, Lewis A.. “Oregon Geographic Names.” Oregon Historical Quarterly
27.4 (December 1926): 412, 434-435 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]

 
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