Blanck, Jacob, ed. Merle Johnson’s American First Editions. Revised and enlarged by
Jacob Blanck. Waltham, Massachusetts: Mark Press, 1965. 365-368 [RCL] [See also 1929, 1932, 1936, 1942.] [MGK] [MCK]
Dunlap, George Arthur. The City in the American Novel, 1789-1900. New York: Russell and Russell. 1965. 62-63. [RCL] [MGK]
Duyckinck, Evert A. and George L. Duyckinck. Cyclopedia of American Literature
Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings, From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs and Other Illustrations. 2 volumes. Edited by M. Laird Smons. Philadelphia: Wm. Rutter and Company, 1965. Volume II: 988-992. [Originally published in 1875] [MCK]
Brief standard biography with a reprint of Arizonian and quotes from a
Review of Songs of the Sierras, the Nation (21 September 1871: 197) and Minnie’s letter to the Oregonian reprinted in Every Saturday (23 December 1871)
Fussell, Edwin S. The Frontier: American Literature and the American West.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. 450pp. 438 [WC] [PSU] [OHS] [MGK] [MCK] [Also published in 1970] [Reference only to the “grandiose role” that Walt Whitman envisioned for Miller as the poet to encompass the prairies and mountains of the west. RCL]
Hafen, LeRoy R. The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of The Far West. 10 volumes.
Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965. Vol. 2: 115. Miller credits William Craig with naming Idaho.
Hafen, LeRoy R. and Carl Coke Rister. Western America: The Exploration, Settlement
and Development of the Region Beyond the Mississippi. 2nd edition. Englewood
Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965. [First published in 1941 and later in 1950] [MCK] Brief biography with the criticism - “His word-pictures were drawn in
fanciful colors but without great depth of meaning.”
Petersen, Edward. In the Shadow of the Mountain. Redding, CA: Self-published. 965. [MGK]
Salsbury, Edith Colgate, ed. Susy and Mark Twain. Family Dialogues. New York:
Harper and Row, 1965. 444pp. 11, 20, 431. [MULT] [WC] [MCK] Brief mentions regarding Miller’s description of Twain and how Twain’s daughter Susy got the nickname Modoc [See also Willis and Paine]
Morrill, Sibley S. “The Poet who became the East Bay’s most famous Resident.” Alameda County Weekender. (6 February 1965): 1-6, 19-24 [OAK] [MGK]
Oregon Historical Quarterly 66.1 (March 1965): 45-46 [Mentions, “Also present, [Lewis and Clark Exposition 1905 Portland, Oregon] among returning West Coast celebrities was the ubiquitous Joaquin Miller, fresh from British acclaim. Never one to miss a pose, the self-styled Poet of the Sierras was photographed in semi-cowboy garb, beside one of Davenports Arabians then an exhibit at the fair by suggestion of theatre manager George L. Baker. ‘Homer Davenport on Stage’ by Alice Henson Ernst.”] [MGK]
Oregon Historical Quarterly 66.1) (March 1965): 89 [Mentions that “Joaquin Miller on the Passing of the Old West” by Lewis E. Buchanan is in December 1964 Research Studies of Washington State University.] [MGK]
Oregon Historical Quarterly 66. 3 (September1965): 282. [Mentions that Eva Hamilton writes about Joaquin Miller and Frances Aiken Pearson in the December 6, 1964 Medford Mail Tribune.] [MGK]
“Juanita Miller Honors Her Poet Father on Sunday.” Montclarion (29 September 1965):
13 [MCK]
London, Jack. Letters From Jack London, Containing an Unpublished Correspondence
Between London and Sinclair Lewis. Edited by King Hendricks and Irving Shepard. New York: The Odyssey Press, 1965. 502pp. 186-187 [RCL: Letters to Carrie Sterling refuting comments made by Joaquin Miller about London’s conduct with his second wife, Charmian, before his separation from Bessie.] [See also the 1992 book of London letters.] [WC] [MULT] [PSU] [MGK] [MCK] [Also published in London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1966] [WC]
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