1955

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Familiar Quotations. Edited by John Bartlett. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1955. [36 quotations from Miller.] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Allen, Gay Wilson. The Solitary Singer; A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman. New
York: Macmillan Company, 1955. 616pp. 482. [WC] [MULT] [MCK]
Description of Whitman’s trip to Philadelphia in December 1877 to attend the opening of The Danites and Mrs. Gilchrist’s memories of Whitman and Miller’s mutual praise of each other. [See also Grace Gilchrist and Herbert Gilchrist] [Also published in New York and London: Grove Press and J. Calder, 1955. 616pp; by Grove Press in 1959 and Macmillan in 1960; reissued with revisions, New York: New York University Press, 1967 and in Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1985.] [WC]
Hyde, Stuart W. “The Chinese Stereotype in American Melodrama.” California Historical Society Quarterly 34.4 (December 1955): 362, 364 [RCL] [Succeeded where Twain and Harte’s Ah Sin failed.] [”The second play produced in 1877...was Joaquin Miller’s The Danites; or, The Heart of the Sierras, which opened in New York in August. Featured was a Chinese laundry man, Washee Washee “] [MGK]
Moody, Richard. America Takes the Stage; Romanticism in American Drama and
Theatre, 1750-1900. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955. 322pp. 181-
183, 236. [RCL] [WC] [MULT] [MGK] [MCK] [Also published in 1969 and 1977]
Mossman, Isaac V. A Pony Expressman’s Recollections. Champoeg Press 1955 n.p. [FRS] [MGK]
Review of Alexandra Gripenberg’s A Half Year in the New Yorld: Miscellaneous
Sketches of Travel in the United States (1888). Translated and Edited by Ernest J. Moyne. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1954. 225pp. History 64 (1955): 93-94. 93. Just a note that Joaquin was one of the celebrities that the Baroness met. [MCK]
Winkler, John K. William Randolph Hearst. A New Appraisal. New York: Hastings
House, 1955. 325pp. 50. [PSU] [WC]. Noted that Miller wrote for the Examiner. [Also published in New York by Avon in 1955] [WC] [MCK]
Montclarion. “Juanita Miller to Honor Father - Poet.” (29 September 1955): 1.[MCK]
Haas, Robert Bartlett. “William Herman Rulofson.” California Historical Society
Quarterly [Bucco & Smith]. Part I: 34 (December 1955): 289-300. 292-95.
Part II: 35 (March 1956): 47-57. 48-49 [MCK] [See also 1956]
Hyde, Stuart W. “The Chinese Stereotype in American Melodrama.” California
Historical Society Quarterly 34 (December 1955): 362. [RCL] [MCK]
Morrison, Perry D. “Columbia College, 1856-60.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 56.4), pp. 327-351. (December 1955): 327-351 [CAL gives pp. 338-340.] [RCL gives pp. 338-339.] [MGK: pp. 327-341, 343, 350.] [Photograph of Joaquin Miller, p. 334, 1857-1859.] [LHM]
“Cincinnatus H. ‘Joaquin’ Miller, best known among persons who
‘graduated’ from the college, intimated strongly that he studied some law at Columbia. The fact that he was admitted to the bar soon after he left Columbia may add some substance to this claim, although college training was not required of barristers in those days. Miller, who was in his late years and wished to emphasize his role as a cultivated man of letters, preferred to dwell upon the fact that he attended Columbia College rather than upon his other experiences on the frontier. He declared that he graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College in Oregon and added that he had also studied at the universities at Oxford, Bonn, and Heidelberg. It is very difficult to separate fact from poetic license when one deals with the career of the Poet of the Sierras. While noting that he is credited with being in a number of other places during the same period, authorities on Miller usually state that he attended Columbia College for about three months in 1859. Fidler, in reminiscences apparently undiscovered by these authorities, declares that he was Miller’s seatmate at the college at the time of the second fire. This would place the period in the early part of 1858. He insists that his valedictorian address in verse given upon graduation from this brief course was the first of his poems to be published. No copy of the poem has been found [A four line extract appears in Wagner 1929 p. 48][MGK]] but it is probable that he may have published it in his own newspaper, the Eugene City Review, which incidentally, was suppressed after a brief career because of its violent pro-slavery bias.” [MCK] [Historical facts herein cited prove he was at Columbia College in 1858 and 1859 and his chronology makes it possible for him to have attended some lectures at Oxford, Bonn, and Heidelberg although never enrolled as a student there. See also a forthcoming article by Fred Granata proving Miller was admitted to the bar.] [MGK]

 
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