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Miller, Joaquin. For Those Who Fail. In Poems that Touched the Heart. New Enlarged Edition compiled by A.L. Alexander. Garden City, NY: Hanover House. 1956. [First published in 1941 and had 25 printings before the 1956 New Enlarged Edition, p. 346.] [MGK]
Corning, Howard McKinley. Dictionary of Oregon History. Portland: Binfords & Mort,
1956. 281pp. p. 166 [MULT] [WC] [MGK] [MCK] [Also Lischen Maud and Theresa Dyer Miller.] [MGK] [2nd edition published in 1989] [WC]
Giles, Rosena A.“The Battle of Castle Rocks.” Covered Wagon. Redding, CA: Shasta Historical Society. [MGK]
Kindilien, Carlin T. American Poetry in the Eighteen-Nineties; a Study of American
Verse, 1890-1899, Based Upon the Volumes from that Period Contained in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays in the Brown University Library. Providence: Brown University Press, 1956. 223pp. [RCL] [WC] [PSU] [MGK] [MCK] [Miller’s works reveal only flashes of true poetry, but they are “valuable source material for the student of American culture and literature.”...He was a true forerunner of the motion picture serial. [RCL]]
Kutras, George. “Shasta, California: A History 1849-1888.” Master’s Thesis for Chico
State College, Chico, California. [MGK]
Lewis, Oscar. Bay Window Bohemia; An Account of the Brilliant Artistic World of Gaslit
San Francisco. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. 248pp. 55, 72,
157, 175, 195, 205-211. [RCL] [Includes an anecdote about Joaquin Miller walking out of a Bohemian Club Dinner honoring Bret Harte.] [MGK] [MCK] [Also published in Oakland: Yosemite-DiMaggio, 1983] [WC]
“Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner.” The World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: Field Enterprises. 1956. pp. 5067-5068. [MGK]
Pritchard, John Paul. Criticism in America. An Account of the Development of Critical
Techniques From the Early Period of the Republic to the Middle Years of the
Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. 325pp. 162.
[WC] [PSU][MCK] All American authors need a sponsor and Miller found his in Byron [Also published in 1967] [WC]
Taylor, Walter Fuller. The Story of American Letters. Boston: American Book
Company, 1956. 251-252. (RCL 102) [MGK] [MCK]
Wright, Lyle H. American Fiction, 1851-1875. San Marino, CA: The Huntington
Library, 1956. 230. [RCL] [MGK] [Many other Miller listings; not recorded] [MCK]
Gross, Seymour L. “A Note on Joaquin Miller’s ‘The Bravest Battle.’” Notes and
Queries 201 (March 1956): 124-125. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Haas, Robert Bartlett. “William Henry Rulofson: Pioneer Daguerreo Typist and Photographic Educator.” California Historical Society Quarterly[Bucco and Smith] 35.1 (March 1956): 47-58 [MGK] [MCK] [p. 48: Some of Rudolfson’s plates were sold by a successor to Miller...who had them scraped clean to build a hot-house at “The Hights.”] [See also December 1955]
Pearson, Norman. “The Glittering St. James Hotel.” San Diego Historical Society
Quarterly 2.2 (April 1956) Noted that Miller stayed at the St. James Hotel.
Online: http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/56April/james.htm
Poore, Charles. “Books of the Times: Review of Bay Window Bohemia.” New York
Times (19 April 1956[Online: 28] [MCK]
Poore refers to Lewis’ comments on ‘Fighting With Walker’ controversy and notes: “A stranger, Mr. Lewis recalls, asked Miller point blank if he had been with Walker. To which Miller replied with dignity: ‘Was Milton ever in Hell?’ All authors should remember that one, for suitable occasions.”
Description of [the] Miller home in hills above Alameda. Oakland Tribune. Knave column. 2. (10 June 1956) [CAL] [MGK]
“Juanita Miller to Honor Father at Dramatic Program.” Montclarion, 19 September
1956: 1. [MCK]
Duckett, Margaret. “Carlyle, ‘Columbus,’ and Joaquin Miller.” Philological Quarterly
35 (October 1956): 443-447. [RCL 102] [MGK] [MCK]
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