1938

Primary sources
Miller, Joaquin. 49. Juanita J. Miller. (A playlet of 20 minutes; arranged and condensed from Joaquin Miller's 4-act play of 49.) (5 August 1938) [LOC] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Arvin, Newton. Whitman. New York: Macmillan Company, 1938. 320pp. 5-6 [WC] [MCK] Contains a note comparing the complexity of writing on Whitman to the complexity of writing on Miller. Also published in 1969] [WC]
Benson, Ivan. Mark Twain’s Western Years. Stanford and London: Stanford University
Press and Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1938. 218pp. 116 [WC] [MULT] [MGK] [MCK] Contains a note that Twain knew Miller.
Hayden, Dorothea Hoaglin. These Pioneers. [Miller is mentioned on pp. 186-196.] [CAL] [MGK]
Hinkel, Edgar J., ed. Bibliography of California Fiction, Poetry, Drama. Oakland, CA: n.p., 1938. Vol. 1, pp. 242-243; Vol. 2, pp. 76-77. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK] [The work was later expanded to three volumes; see 1969] [RCL]
Lewis, Oscar. The Big Four. The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker,
and of the Building of the Central Pacific. New York and London: A. A. Knopf,
1938. 418pp. [Also published in 1941, 1945, 1951, 1959, 1966, 1969, 1971 and 1981] [WC] [PSU] [MCK] [The 1959 edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 418 pp., includes Miller reference on p. 322]:
Discusses the popularity of locomotives in literature and reprints the
following Joaquin quote: “’There is more poetry in the rush of a single railroad train across the continent than in all the gory story of burning Troy”
Lockley, Fred. “Impressions and Observations of the Journal Man” in the 1938 Oregon Journal passim.[MGK]
Masters, Edgar Lee. Mark Twain. A Portrait. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons,
1938. 259pp. [WC] [MCK] [Also published in 1966, with reference to Miller on p. 50] [MGK]
Mott, Frank L. History of American Magazines. Harvard University Press. 1938. [MGK]
Richardson, Ruth Ellsworth. Oregon History Stories. Eugene, OR: Valley Printing Co. p. 119. [PMC] [MGK]
San Francisco. American Guide Series. New York, 1938 [MAR] [MCK]
Lee, Minnie. An article about Miller in (9 January 1938) Oregonian. [See March] [MGK]
Grandson’s death (Aloysius McCormick). Sacramento Bee. p. 8:1.(22 February 1938) [CAL] [MGK] “Turlock, Feb. 22--Aloysius McCormick, 48, grandson of Joaquin Miller, famed California poet, died at his home here yesterday following a long illness. McCormick was the son of Maude Miller McCormick, daughter of the poet. Funeral services are pending.”
Lee, Minnie. “Romances in Oregon before the White Woman: [Joaquin Miller’s Indian Idyll]” was cited by the Oregon Historical Quarterly (March 1938) as being an article about Joaquin Miller in the Oregonian (9 January 1938) Magazine Section 4. [MGK] [MCK]
“Newspaper Narratives” in “News and Comment.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 39.1 (March 1938): 85 [MGK]
Juanita Miller plants tree and kisses dog. San Francisco Chronicle. (5 April 1938): 14: 2 [MGK]
“Queries and Answers: Answer: Could I Know for Certain.” New York Times (10 April
1938): 113 [MCK] Lines that appeared in the “Queries and Answers” section of March 6 are identified as being from Californian and are quoted here.
California Conservationist. May issue [MGK]
Free Press. (23 May 1938) quote from California Conservationist.[MGK]
Encyclopedia Britannica 15, 14th Edition. (June 1938) [PMC] [MGK]
Miller estate to become part of Oakland’s park system. San Francisco Chronicle (7 August 1938): 6: 1; (26 August 1938): 10: 2 [CAL] [MGK]
Riley, Frank Branch. “The New Capitol and State Library.” [Address of Riley at Cornerstone Laying of New Capitol building, Salem, Oregon, June 17, 1937.] Oregon Historical Quarterly 393) (September 11938): 219 [MGK]
McCarthy, John Russell. “Glimpses of a Poet who looked like a Poet.” California Historical Nugget 6 (November1938): 43-49 [OAK] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
“C. H. [Joaquin Miller] (1938 [sic] - 1913), Poet, Oregon Editor, Who Liked Posing in
Chaps.” (OHS Clippings File) [MCK] [He posed for the Orpheum circuit pictures in chaps. He normally was photographed in lawyer’s clothes for indoor pictures and/or in miner or farmer apparel as the situation dictated.] [MGK]

 
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