1977

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Dead in the Sierra Theme Music. From the motion picture by the same name, words by Carl Zimmermann. Under pseud. Cincinnatus Heine Miller, music by Btain Swander. Warren Haack, dba, Tuolumne Films (11 March 1977) [MGK]
-----. Selected Writings of Joaquin Miller. Edited with historical introduction and notes by Alan Rosenus. ix-xv. Eugene, OR: Urion Press. 268 pages. [UOL] [OAK] [USC] [HUN has a first edition.] [HON has a copy inscribed by the editor.] [“The California Diary” appears on pp. 143-199.] [MGK] [Introduction suggests that Miller was in many ways a better prose writer than poet, and notes that his early prose, especially that not polished for publication, has originality of style and diction, and powerful feeling.] [RCL] [UOL] [OAK] [HUN]

Secondary Sources
Collins, John Churton. Studies in Poetry and Criticism. Norwood, Pennsylvania: Norwood Editions, 1977. 309pp. 6, 33, 62-63, 71. [RCL] [PSU] [WC] [MCK] [First published in 1905]
Dickson, Samuel. Tales of San Francisco. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. [RCL: pp. 74, 169, 171, 173, 177, 427.] [MGK]
Gale, Robert L. Charles Warren Stoddard. Boise State University Writers Series, No.
30. Boise: Boise State University, 1977. 49pp. 8, 41 [RCL] [PSU] [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
Jackson, Joseph Henry. Bad Company: The Story of California’s Legendary and Actual Stage Robbers, Bandits, Highway Men and Outlaws from The Fifties to the Eighties. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. [MGK]
Lamar, Howard R., ed. The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. 1306pp. 733-734. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. 1306pp [WC] [MULT] [WC] [OHS] [PSU]
Provides typical biographical information, criticizes Miller for giving false
statements (for example, fighting with Walker) and states: “He wrote too much and revised too little.” Ironically, Lamar erroneously lists Fallen Leaves (1873) and By the Sun-Down Seas as works by Joaquin Miller.
Literary Writings in America: A Bibliography. 8 Volumes. Millwood: Kraus-Thomson
Organization Ltd., 1977. Vol. 6: 7019-7032. [RCL: …contains many inaccuracies] [MGK] [MCK]
Peterson, Emil R., and Alfred Powers. A Century of Coos and Curry Co.: History of Southwest Oregon. Coquille, Oregon: Coos-Curry Pioneeer and Historical Association, 1977. 50, 213, 276, 493, 569, [Minnie] 213, 275, 276, 493. [Dates on 213 differ from those on 276.]
Robbins, J. Albert, ed. American Literary Manuscripts: A Checklist of Holdings in
Academic, Historical, and Public Libraries, Museums, and Author’s Homes in the
United States. 2nd Edition. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1977. 387pp. 220-221. [Seventy depositories are listed for Miller. Introduction describes procedures to follow in making use of manuscript collections. Supersedes American Literary Manuscripts: A Checklist of Holdings in Academic, Historical, and Public Libraries in the United States, edited by Joseph Jones, et al., 1960, Austin: University of Texas Press. [RCL] [PSU].
Rather, Lois. Bohemians to Hippies: Waves of Rebellion. Oakland California: Rather Press. 1975 copyright. passim [RCL cites: pp. 23, 37, 41, 43, 44, 47, 56-60, 63-66, 68, 73, 78, 79, 145.] [HUN] [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
Rossetti, William M. The Diary of W. M. Rossetti, 1870-1873. Edited by Odette
Bornand. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. 302pp. [RCL cites: xx, xxii, 45, 49,
55-59, 63, 67, 222, 225, 226-227, 232, 242-245, 249, 265. [RCL] [WC] [Also
published in 1978] [MGK] [MCK]
Weintraub, Stanley. Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography. New York: Weybright and
Talley, 1977. 303pp. 177. [WC] [PSU] [MCK] [See also 1978] Note about Christina Rossetti loaning Charles Bagot Cayley her presentation copy of Songs of the Sierras [MCK]
Waldron, Larry. “The Poet and the Murderer.” Real West (January): 36. Reprinted from Real West Annual Winter Edition. 1977-1978: 12 [MGK]
Kelly, R.J. Review of Selected Writings of Joaquin Miller edited by Alan Rosenus. Literary Journal 102 (February 1977): 386. [MGK]
“West’s Still Being Won - In Print.” Willamette Week (1 March 1977): fw13. [Oregon
State Library Online Catalog] [MCK]
Bell, Mimi “Selected Writings of Joaquin Miller. Unexpected Pleasure.” [A review] Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon (6 March 1977) [OHS Clippings File) [LHM] [MGK] [MCK]
Review of Selected Writings of Joaquin Miller edited by Alan Rosenus. Choice 14 (July-August): 683 [MGK]
Eclectic 77 (August): 240 [CCL] [MGK]
Espey, John. Review of Selected Writings of Joaquin Miller edited by Alan Rosenus. Westways 69.112 (December 1977): 74-75. [MGK]

 
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