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Miller, Joaquin. Columbus. An excerpt from “The Song of America”, for mixed chorus, music and arrangement by Roy Ringwald, words from poem Columbus. [With piano reduction.] Shawnee Press, Inc., 1951. (17 May 1951) [MGK]
Fatout, Paul. Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Lexicographer. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1951. 349pp. [RCL: 74, 93, 96, 107-08, 162, 188, 189, 291. [PSU] [WC] [MGK] [MCK] [RCL: ...that despite Bierce’s sharp criticism of Miller, he “rather liked him.”] [MGK] [Also published in 1983]
Gohdes, Clarence. “New Wine in Old Bottles.” In The Literature of the American
People. Edited by Arthur Hobson Quinn. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts,
1951. 1172pp. 624-632. [RCL] [PSU] [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
Hughes, Glenn. A History of the American Theatre, 1700-1950. New York: Samuel
French, 1951. 562pp. 298. [RCL] [MULT] [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
Jones, Idwal. Ark of Empire; San Francisco’s Montgomery Block. Garden City:
Doubleday and Company, 1951. 253pp. 19, 29. [RCL] [WC] [ILL-
10/03/02] [MGK] [MCK] [Later published as a Comstock Edition. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. 181pp.] [WC]
(19) Noted that Yone Noguchi had learned from Miller.
(29) Noted that Miller, “the swaggering prophet in jack boots,” along with
Bierce and Stoddard, was a one of Sterling’s mentors.
Pope-Hennessy, James. Monckton Milnes, The Flight of Youth, 1851-1885. New York:
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Inc., 1951. Vol. 2: 239-240. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Watson, Lillian Eichler, ed. Light From Many Lamps. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1951. 324pp. [WC] Self-help book that features Joaquin’s Sail On! Sail On! [MCK] [Also published in 1976, 1979 and 1988] [WC]
Winslow, Kathryn. Big Pan Out. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1951. 51,
116-117, 147-149. 247pp. [Published in London in 1952 and 1953] [RCL] [MAR] [WC] [ILL-10/02/02] [MGK] [MCK]
(51) “Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras and California’s beloved old man of ‘The Hights,’ booked passage on the City of Mexico as a correspondent for the Hearst papers. He said, ‘I am going up to get information for the poor men who mean to go to the mines next summer. If I find the mines limited either in area or thickness, my first duty will be to let the world know.’ He took a forty-pound knapsack of bacon, hardtack and tea with him, and a flute, besides his notebook and a couple of pencils.
‘I will not need the usual provisions,’ explained the poet, ‘because, having got right down to the bedrock of the cold frozen facts, I shall take the next steamer leaving Dawson and return straight to San Francisco.’”
(116-17) Note that Joaquin arrived in Dyea in the summer of 1897 and
quotes from his first dispatch. Winslow continues, “The poet played his flute as he tramped along through the woods. He had only a light pack swinging from his shoulders. Apparently he did not notice the men tramping with him for he never mentioned them. His letters, which were syndicated and widely read, described the scenery with great care but he gave no account of the unpleasant aspects of the trip. He said nothing about dead horses and blowflies, about mosquitoes or sump holes, he avoided the subject of the river’s pollution, although, like everyone else, he must have dipped up his drinking water from it.”
(147-149) [Not recorded]
“Juanita Miller Recites Fascinating Tales of Her Poet Father’s Life.” Montclarion (4
January 1951): 11 [MCK]
“Obituary: Charles Kreling.” New York Times (19 June 1951) [Online: 29] Noted that Kreling, a photographer, went with Miller to the Klondike. [MCK]
Bridges, S.R. “I Managed Presidents as told to K. Singer.” South Atlantic Quarterly 50, (July 1951): 309 [MGK]
“Drama Memorial for Famous Poet.” Montclarion (16 August 1951): 4 [MCK]
“J. Miller Homesite Willed to City by Poet’s Daughter.” Montclarion (1 November
1951): 1. [MCK]
Pollard, Lancaster. “The Pacific Northwest, A Regional Study.” Oregon Historical
Quarterly 52.4 (December 1951): 218, 230-231 [MGK] [MCK]
“Cincinnatus Hiner Miller, later well known as Joaquin Miller, edited so
virulent a pro-Confederacy newspaper that he was forced to move to
another town. There he set himself up as a lawyer, was elected a judge, and began the writing of poetry - some on the clean pages of the court’s bound record books, perhaps while giving judicial attention to the litigation before him.”
Advertisement for Light From Many Lamps. By Lillian Eichler Watson. New York
Times (7 October 195) [Online: 243] Joaquin’s Sail On! Sail On! included and recommended for problems with confidence and achievement.
Booth, Bradford Allen. The Letters of Anthony Trollope. London, New York and
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1951. 519pp. 309. [WC] Reprint of Trollope’s letter to Kate Field dated July 5, 1873 [Also published in 1979] [WC]
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