1931

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Untitled poem: Afar the bright Sierras lie./The men of forty-nine. When the red-curtained West--/Sierras, and eternal tents. O bearded, stalwart, westmost men./That great great graveyard of hopes! of men. Sierra Slopes and Summits. Johnck & Seeger. 1931. [OAK] [MGK]
-----. In Men whom Men Condemn, Twilight at the Hights, Dead in the Sierras, and Columbus. In Songs and Stories. Selected by Edwin Markham. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago: Powell Publishing Company. 1931. [OAK] [MGK]
-----. Old Gib At Castle Rocks. In The Castle Crags Wilderness State Park Association handout, ca. 1931. [Reprinted from Leslie's Monthly (March 1893): 271-272] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Bamford, Georgia Loring. The Mystery of Jack London: Some of His Friends, Also a
Few Letters: A Reminiscence. Oakland: Privately Printed, 1931. 252pp. 74, 89,
154-55. [RCL] [WC] [MGK] [MCK] [Anecdotes of Miller’s friendship with Bamford’s father and Jack London. [RCL] [Also published in 1969, 1973, 1976 and 1977]
Barrus, Clara. Whitman and Burroughs, Comrades. Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin Company and Cambridge: Riverside Press. 1931. 392pp. 60, 74, 105,
107, 207 [RCL] [MULT] [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
(pg. 60) Reprint of a journal entry by Burroughs dated August 1, 1871
about a conversation he had with Whitman about Miller. Burroughs writes:
“. . . He has seen only some extracts - thinks we ought to lean to
the favorable side . . . . In the first place Miller had saturated himself through and through with Byron and the stormy, passionate poetry of that school, but had had the good sense, or luck, to graft, or get grafted, upon this stock, fresh subjects - miners, hunters, etc. from Mexico and California. He said there was a dash and spirit in the book, and freshness, but it would not bear trying by any high, serene standards. He said that beneath the conventionality of English aristocracy there was a chord that vibrated to the wild-horse business - roughness, danger, courage - that Miller had had the luck to strike it, and John Bull was tickled.”
(pg. 74) Reprint of a letter from Whitman to Charles Eldridge dated July
19, 1872. In this letter Whitman describes meeting Joaquin. See Letters.
(pg. 105-107). Discussion of the January 29, 1874 Review in the Nation where Whitman was compared unfavorably to Joaquin. (pg. 206-207)
Reprint of letter from Whitman to John Burroughs dated September 24, 1881. See Letters.
Blankenship, Russell. American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind. New
York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1931. 731pp. 447-448. [RCL] [HGT] [RCL: Even in his least successful poems he has left us valuable social documents of western scenery and life.”] [HGT has Blankenship and Henry Holt & Co.] [MGK] [Also published in 1935, 1949, 1958 and 1973] [WC]
Bret Harte, Argonaut and Exile. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1931. pp. 175, 218, 252. [RCL: See also “Poetry After the Civil War” by George F. Whicher in American Writers on American Literature, 1934, New York: Tudor Publishing Co., Edited
by John Macy.] [MGK] [MCK]
Byington, Lewis Francis and Oscar Lewis, eds. The History of San Francisco. 3
Volumes. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1931. 506-507. [RCL] [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
Fuller, George Washington. History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: A. A. Knopf,
1931.383pp. [MULT] [WC] [HGT] [MGK] [MCK] [Also published in 1938 and
1966]
Garland, Hamlin. Companions on the Trail: A Literary Chronicle. New York: the Macmillan Company 1931 pp. 9, 11.
Horner, John B. Oregon History and Early Literature. Portland, Oregon: J. K. Gill
Company, 1931. 424-433. See also Oregon: Her History, Her Great Men, Her Literature, 1919 [MCK]
Hulbert, Archer Butler. Forty-niners, The Chronicle of the California Trail. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1931. [HGT] [MULT] [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
Macy, John Albert. ed. American Writers on American Literature. New York: H. Liveright, Inc. 1931. 539 pages. [CCL: 380] [MGK]
Markham, Edwin . ed. Songs and Stories. Los Angeles: Powell Publishing Co., 1931. pp. 2, 4, 7-11. [RCL] [MGK]
------. [Compiler]. Songs and Stories: Selected and Annotated, with An Introduction. San Francisco: Powell Publishing Co. 1931. 461 pages. [CCL: 9, 10, 249] [RCL] [MGK]
Merriam, C. Hart. Field Notes. Berkeley: Bancroft Library. 1931. [References to Joaquin Miller by Indian informants.] [MCK]
Merriam, Harold Guy. Northwest Verse: An Anthology. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers. 1931 [MGK]
Miller, Pherne. The Joaquin Miller Cabin. Beach Drive, Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C., Lansdale, Pennsylvania: Privately printed. 1931. Frank H. M. Klinge, n.p. #s. [Keepsake from the pherne-craft studio.] (Robert Chandler has Pherne Miller April 30, 1941 signed copy.) “Cited in Blanck, 1973” (RCL 82) [RCL] [MES] [MGK] [MCK] [OHS Papers File]
Reprints of works and parts of works including Columbus, Byron. The Bravest Battle, Walker in Nicaragua, Peter Cooper, The Dead Millionaire and Lessons Not Found in Books. The book also features excerpts from the 1871 English Reviews from the Illustrated London News and Noncomformist.
Stewart, George R., Jr. Bret Harte, Argonaut and Exile: Being an Account of the Life of
the Celebrated American Humorist, Author of The Luck of Roaring Camp, Condensed Novels, The Heathen Chinee, Tales of the Argonauts, etc., etc. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. 384pp. [WC] [PSU] [MCK] [Also published in 1959, 1964 and 1979]
Woodbury, George Edward. Appreciation of Literature, and America in Literature.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931. 195pp. [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
Eliot, William G. Jr. “Thomas Starr King in Oregon, 1862.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 32.1 (March 1931): 105-107 [Quotations from Miller in Democratic Register of Eugene City, July 26, 1862, signed C. H. Miller.]
Lorch, Fred W. “A Note on Joaquin Miller.” American Literature 3 (March 1931): 75-
78. [FST] [MAR] [MGK] [MCK] [PMC] [HON] [RCL] [FST: “Miller at Columbia College.”]
Santee, J. F. “Early Education in Oregon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 32.1 (March 1931): 65-67 [Mentions Miller attending Columbia College of Eugene.] [MGK]
“Notes on New Books.” The Bookman 73 (April 1931): iv [RCL: Review of Overland in a Covered Wagon.] [MGK] [MCK]
Juanita Miller patents new harp. San Francisco Chronicle (23 April 1931): 8: 7 [CAL] [LHM has a similar San Francisco Examiner article.] [MGK]
Peterson, Martin S. “The Border Days of Joaquin Miller, 1854-1870.” The Frontier: A Magazine of the Northwest. Missoula, MT: State University of Montana 11.4 (May 1931): 362-375, 410. [OAK] [RCL] [MAR] [PET] [Mention of Letters to Miller’s brother George. See The Frontier, December 1931.] [MGK] [MCK]
“Swinburne Meets Joaquin Miller.” New York Times (10 May 1931) [Online: BR5]
Picture with the text: “Once Joaquin Miller and a British Writer Called on Swinburne, Whom the Englishman Claimed as an Intimate Friend. They Announced Themselves as Joaquin Miller, the American Poet, and a Friend. Swinburne Sent Down Word to ‘Bring the American Poet Up and Tell the Friend to Go to Hell.’” [MCK]
“Joaquin Miller’s Name Wins Place on Nightingale Roll.” Oakland Tribune (13May 1931) [LHM] [MGK]
“Obituary: Trader Horn Dies at 79 in England; Alfred Aloysius Smith Became Literary
Sensation of Decade in 1927. Man of Many Adventures - He was Selling Kitchen Utensils When Discovered in South Africa by Mrs. Etheireda Lewis.” New York Times (26 June 1931): 21. Noted that Trader Horn physically resembled Miller. [MCK]
Watson, Douglas S. “Meetings of the Society.” (25 August 1931, Juanita on Joaquin.) California Historical Society Quarterly 10.3 p. 307. [Presentation titled, “Joaquin Miller in Song, Story and Slides.”]
Douglas, Jesse S. “Syracuse and Santiam City, 1845-61.” Oregon Historical Society 32
(September 1931): 208. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“Proposed Park Area Once Scene of Bloody Battle With Indian Renegades.” (p. 1.) “Castle Crags Saw Battle With Indians.” (p. 6.) Dunsmuir News (18 September 1931): 1, 6 [LHM] [MGK]
“Notes on Rare Books.” New York Times (11 October 1931) [Online: BR13] [MCK]
Noted that the Chapin Library has added four copies of Miller’s Pacific Poems to
its collection, making a total of 11 [MCK]
“Wonderland Region Fired Joaquin Miller’s Genius.” Dunsmuir News (23 October 1931) [MGK]
Juanita Miller guest of San Jose Women’s Club. San Francisco Chronicle (25 October 1931): S4: 2
Peterson, Martin S. “The Death of a Poet.” Prairie Schooner 4 (Winter 1931): 47-51.
[RCL says 5: 47-51, Winter] [PET] [MGK] [MCK] [RCL: “Miller desired to be a great poet, but succumbed to journalism to earn a living.”]

Letters and Archival Papers
Advertisement for Some Contemporary Americans. By Percy Boynton, New York Times
(18 October 1931): 75 [MCK]
Miller’s name is mentioned in connection with Percy Holmes Boynton’s The Rediscovery of the Frontier and Some Contemporary Americans.
Beebe, Beatrice. “Joaquin Miller and His Family” ed. from letters of Miller to his brother Geo. Melvin Miller. The Frontier (Missoula, Montanna) 12 (November 1931). [MGK] [HGT see also Jan. Mar. and May 1932).] [MCK] [1932 Calif. Historical Soc. Quarterly 11.1 p. 83 refers to the Frontier of Dec. 1931] [MGK]

 
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