1. Journal Page 6101/Joaquin Miller The Poetry of Joaquin Miller. Table of Contents. A Concise Biography of JoaquinMiller. Joaquin Miller was born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller on September 8, 1837. http://www.solopublications.com/jurn6101.htm

Central California Poetry Journal Volume 96 Number 1 The Poetry of Central California Page 6101 The Poetry of Joaquin Miller Table of Contents A Concise Biography of Joaquin Miller Comments on the selected poems Selected poems by Joaquin Miller California's Cups of Gold Yosemite Dead In The Sierras Joaquin Murietta ... Links to other Journal Pages A Concise Biography of Joaquin Miller Joaquin Miller was born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller on September 8, 1837. In the introduction to Volume One of JOAQUIN MILLER'S POEMS, published by Harr Wagner Publishing Co. in 1917 however, Miller wrote, "I see that my birthday is set down in some books for 1841, and in others for 1842. This comes from the loss of the Bible...Papa gave the former year, according to his recollection of the trivial event, while mother insisted on the latter, both giving the same day of the month....I was born in a covered wagon, I am told at or about the time it crossed the line dividing Indiana from Ohio." In a 1967 Biography by O.W. Frost, Twayne Publishers Inc, however, Miller's biographer establishes 1837 as the year of Millers birth. Frost also identifies Miller's covered wagon birth as a fabrication. The name Joaquin was adapted from the legendary California bandit, Joaquin Murietta. Joaquin Miller described his decision to adopt the name at the conclusion of the Poem "Joaquin Murietta," in Volume II of his collected works.

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Joaquin Miller is part of the Oakland Unified School District Comments or questions about this web site? Contact or or go to the feedback page The Spring schedule for the after-school enrichment classes is now out and online. The classes create opportunities for families to give their children more experiences in the arts and sciences. See the schedule and registration information here. Room 5 teacher Sara White has created a class web page! Check out what the class is up to, see homework assignments and more. Check it out here. District news: The school district office has released a new question and answer letter to the community about the school district's finances and the possibility of a state takeover. It's on the OUSD web site here. It's a .pdf file, which means your computer will need Adobe Acrobat to read it. March 18: STAR writing test, grade 4 March 20: PTA meeting, 7 p.m., multipurpose room

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LOCAL COLOR 19th-century Regional Writing in the United States The Wild West in Piccadilly: Joaquin Miller and the Performance of Place Born on the long trail to Oregon, Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller spent his childhood and youth in the Pacific Northwest, one of the wildest remaining parts of the country at that time. Like Bret Harte and Mark Twain, he briefly tried a number of different jobs, including a stint riding the pony express, an interval as a teacher, some time with the Indians of the Pitt River tribe (during which time he was rumored to have married a Native American woman and fathered a daughter). Finally, he spent a short period of time studying law before settling temporarily in Eugene, Oregon where he took up the editorship of a local paper and devoted himself to writing poetryhis first love throughout life. In 1863, he and his new wife, the poet Minnie Myrtle (Theresa Dyer), honeymooned in San Francisco, hoping to break into the literary scene and remain permanently. They both were successful at placing some of their verse in the teaming journals of the Bay Area, but it is not likely that they were paid for any of their efforts. In fact, Col. Joseph Lawrence, owner-editor of the Golden Era , far from encouraging Miller, actively discouraged any further attempts; of Miller's poem "Oregon," he said that its rhymes were "as suggestively simple as a schoolboy's," and recommended that their author "cease wooing the muses and return to Oregon to grow 'taters.'"

4. Joaquin Miller Joaquin Miller (1837? 1913) The Central California Poetry Journal has put together a great page on the life and works of Joaquin Miller. Brief introductions to the life of Joaquin Miller are available at this page and this page. http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Ludlow/People/miller.html

Joaquin Miller The Central California Poetry Journal has put together a great page on the life and works of Joaquin Miller Brief introductions to the life of Joaquin Miller are available at this page and this page Here's an article written by Joaquin Miller for the Oakland Tribune , May 6, 1906 Here's a Mt. Shasta Grizzly Legend as told by Joaquin Miller. Search Alta Vista Search the Web Usenet and Display the Results in Standard Form in Compact Form in Detailed Form Ludlow Library Home What's New Feedback ... Search The Sputnik Drug Information Zone http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/

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7. California Reader - Joaquin Miller A collection of poems and other writings by Joaquin Miller, intimate of Oscar Wilde and Lily Langtry. Includes an introduction to the author and a chronology of his life, among other things. http://www.notfrisco.com/calmem/miller/index.html

8. California Reader - Joaquin Miller "A collection of poems and other writings by Joaquin Miller, intimate of Oscar Wilde and Lily Category Arts Literature Authors M Miller, Joaquin...... http://www.notfrisco.com/calmem/miller/

9. Burbank USD: Schools : Joaquin Miller Elementary School Educational facility information on student academics, dress code, policies, and contact information. http://www.burbank.k12.ca.us/schools/joaquinmiller/index.html

Joaquin Miller Elementary 720 East Providencia Avenue Telephone: (818) 558-5460 Fax: (818) 843-6077 Principal's email address: gcopeland@admin.burbank.k12.ca.us Miller Kindergarten School 223 East Santa Anita Telephone: (818) 558-4634 About Our School Principal's Welcome Message 2001 - 2002 School Accountability Report Card (SARC) STAR Testing Results ... SEARCH

10. California Reader - Joaquin Miller Joaquin Miller. The work will be recycled under various titles including UnwrittenHistory, Paquita, and Joaquin Miller's Romantic Life Amongst the Red Indians. http://www.notfrisco.com/calmem/miller/chrono.html

Joaquin Miller A Chronology Schoolteacher Hulings Miller meets, courts, and marries Margaret DeWitt. September 8. Birth of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller near Liberty, Indiana. This is the date accepted by most scholars. His middle name comes from the doctor who delivered him. March 10. Birthdate claimed by Miller's brothers. March 10. Date which Miller claimed as his birthday, particularly in his later years. He will also falsely claim "My cradle was a covered wagon, pointed West." C. Hiner Miller's schooling begins. Hulings Miller purchases a farm near Rochester, Indiana. The Miller Family hears of the gold strike and becomes interested in moving west. Hulings Miller sells his farm to the same man he bought it from. Hulings Miller sets out with his family for the Oregon Territory. They arrive in October and settle near Coburg. Joaquin/Hiner will later write of the epidemic-ridden route: "There was but one graveyard that hot, dusty, dreadful year of 1852 and that graveyard reached from the Missouri to the Columbia." After accidentally breaking the leg of a neighbor's cow by pushing boulders down a hill, C. Hiner Miller and his friend Will Willoughby bolt for the California gold fields.

11. Joaquin Miller by Jack Adler Called the Poet of the Sierras and the Byron of the Rockies, CincinnatusHiner Miller alias Joaquin Miller was also termed a poseur and a http://www.literarytraveler.com/miller/joaquinmiller.htm

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12. Joaquin Miller Joaquin Miller (1837? 1913) The Central California Poetry Journal has put together a great page on the life and works of Joaquin Miller. A brief introduction to the life of Joaquin Miller is available at this page. Here's a Mt. http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/People/miller.html

Joaquin Miller The Central California Poetry Journal has put together a great page on the life and works of Joaquin Miller A brief introduction to the life of Joaquin Miller is available at this page Here's a Mt. Shasta Grizzly Legend as told by Joaquin Miller. Search Alta Vista Search the Web Usenet and Display the Results in Standard Form in Compact Form in Detailed Form Sputnik Feedback Icon legend The Sputnik Drug Information Zone

13. Who Was Joaquin Miller? Who was Joaquin Miller? Joaquin Miller was a colorful figure who waswell known in California literary and social circles. He spent http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/jmiller/About/miller.html

Student performance Meet the staff Who was Joaquin Miller? Who was Joaquin Miller? Joaquin Miller was a colorful figure who was well known in California literary and social circles. He spent his last years in Oakland, in a home on the road that is now Joaquin Miller Road. But his real name the name he was given at birth on Sept. 8, 1837 was Cincinnatus Hiner. The name "Joaquin" was adapted later from the legendary California bandit, Joaquin Murietta. Joaquin Miller's parents were Quakers. Miller's father was a magistrate in Indiana. In 1852, his parents relocated their family to Oregon, traveling with two heavily laden wagons, eight oxen yoked to each, a carriage and two horses. The three thousand mile trip took seven months and five days. The family settled in the Williamette Valley in Oregon where they established a home and farm. Miller, while still a boy, headed to California with another boy during the early Gold Rush. He worked in a number of mining camps. He reported that he was severely wounded in a battle between the settlers near Mt. Shasta and the Modoc Indian Tribe when an arrow pierced his face and exited the back of his neck. The arrow passed close to the base of his brain. Although he eventually recovered from the wound, he suffered both physical and mental effects of the injury for at least a year. He later had little recollection of that period of time. He survived other battles with Northern California Indian groups, and had several altercations with the law over matters relating to the ownership of livestock and gun play.

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JOAQUIN MILLER RETURNS TO CANYON CITY - SUMMER OF 1907 An article by C.G. McIntosh, teacher, tells of being with Joaquin Miller on his return to visit Canyon City in the summer of 1907. "If that is my cabin, I did a good job of putting on the shingles. But I should not have recognized it. Those trees are not as I planted them. There is a shirt on the line too which I know is not mine. I never had but one in those dear old days." And then, Joaquin Miller, the Sweet Singer of the Sierras, took the photograph which he was examining into a stronger light, swept the silvery lock that dangled lower over his shoulder, adjusted his eye glasses and with his index finger, located the lines of the lowlying hills which surrounded the cabin of his early home. A look of intense earnestness - or was it something more - shown in his face as he continued. "Yes, it's all changed here beyond recognition, but the contour of the hills seem the same forever more. This (pointing to the cabin) is my work! This, (indicating the sweep of the hills) is God's." And with a supreme reverence that thrilled speaker and hearers alike, murmured, "Holy, Holy Hills." It is given to many men to love nature, but few could interpret her secrets as did Joaquin Miller! "See where the eternal forces are ceaselessly at work repairing the devastation of man." He observed the large area of divided upland placer land. "Nature abhors a wound, and even an open scar. She slowly but surely softens and hides them by some of her magical art. The steeper edges of this cut are already smoothing out, and hardy grasses and brave blossoms are colonizing in the scant soil of the ruins. These hills are emblems of charity."

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JOAQUIN MILLER RETURNS TO CANYON CITY - SUMMER OF 1907 An article by C.G. McIntosh, teacher, tells of being with Joaquin Miller on his return to visit Canyon City in the summer of 1907. "If that is my cabin, I did a good job of putting on the shingles. But I should not have recognized it. Those trees are not as I planted them. There is a shirt on the line too which I know is not mine. I never had but one in those dear old days." And then, Joaquin Miller, the Sweet Singer of the Sierras, took the photograph which he was examining into a stronger light, swept the silvery lock that dangled lower over his shoulder, adjusted his eye glasses and with his index finger, located the lines of the lowlying hills which surrounded the cabin of his early home. A look of intense earnestness - or was it something more - shown in his face as he continued. "Yes, it's all changed here beyond recognition, but the contour of the hills seem the same forever more. This (pointing to the cabin) is my work! This, (indicating the sweep of the hills) is God's." And with a supreme reverence that thrilled speaker and hearers alike, murmured, "Holy, Holy Hills." It is given to many men to love nature, but few could interpret her secrets as did Joaquin Miller! "See where the eternal forces are ceaselessly at work repairing the devastation of man." He observed the large area of divided upland placer land. "Nature abhors a wound, and even an open scar. She slowly but surely softens and hides them by some of her magical art. The steeper edges of this cut are already smoothing out, and hardy grasses and brave blossoms are colonizing in the scant soil of the ruins. These hills are emblems of charity."

16. Joaquin Miller Joaquin Miller by Janice Albert. Time works All around these emblems ofthe past, Joaquin Miller Park bustles with activity. The Oakland http://www.cateweb.org/CA_Authors/miller.html

Joaquin Miller by Janice Albert Time works on literary reputation in such a way that, when the glacier of critical opinion is past, only El Capitan remains, splendidly removed from the fragmented shards and rubble ground to gravel underfoot. The agency of chance in creating El Capitan is forgotten. If the remaining knobs and knolls could speak of their own hopes and dreams, we would smile gently at their pretension. "You, too, aspired to greatness? Oh, puleeze." This statue of the Poet of the Sierras is in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park All around these emblems of the past, Joaquin Miller Park bustles with activity. The Oakland Parks and Recreation Department operates a community center; there is a ranger station and a municipal wood chipping site. Weddings take place here. For many years, residents of the wider East Bay have visited Woodminster Amphitheater to hear musical theater performed on summer evenings. For many local singers and dancers, Woodminster was their first auditioning experience, and for some, their first appearance on a professional stage. The amphitheater itself, with its adjacent fountain and spectacular views, is dedicated to California Writers. (The name Woodminster means "cathedral in the woods.") The park, now 512 acres, began with the acquisition by the City of Oakland of the 52 acres Miller purchased in 1886. The man christened Cincinnatus Heine Miller, (1841?-1913) who idolized Moses and the Brownings, was advised by none other than

17. Landmark 107 - Joaquin Miller Home - Alameda County 09/21/96. 107. Joaquin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras " resided on these acres, named by him "The Hights " from 1886 to http://www.donaldlaird.com/landmarks/counties/100-199/107.html

Joaquin Miller Home California State Historic Landmark 107 Plaque Photo: Joaquin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras," resided on these acres, named by him "The Hights," from 1886 to 1918. In this building, known as The Abbey, he wrote "Columbus" and other poems. The surrounding trees were planted by him and he personally built, on the eminence to the north, the funeral pyre and the monuments dedicated to Moses, General John C. Fremont, and Robert Browning. "The Hights" was purchased by the City of Oakland in 1919. Site Photo: Location: Joaquin Miller Park, NW corner of Joaquin Miller Rd and Sanborn Dr, Oakland. Return to other landmarks in Alameda county. Please note: I have no connection to any organizations mentioned on this site. Send comments to: Donald Laird

18. Ina Coolbrith she would make friends with the writers of her day Samuel Clemens, Bret Harte (shortenedfrom Francis Brett Harte), Charles Warren Stoddard and Joaquin Miller http://www.cateweb.org/CA_Authors/Coolbrith.html

Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928) and the California Frontier by Janice Albert When she arrived at the border of California as a ten-year-old, her family's wagon train had been traveling for months in the long trek from Missouri. It was August, and the Pickett family was haunted by stories of the Donner party fiasco five years before. Coolbrith's biographer, Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel, gives this account of the crossing: Jim Beckwourth, noted Black mountaineer "rode slowly ahead of the column of seventeen worn and creaking schooners. When near the pass he asked Mrs. Pickett if her younger daughter would like to ride with him. She would then be the first white child to do so." At the pass, Beckwourth dismounted and helped the girl off the horse. An autumn wind had come up, stinging their faces, whipping their clothes. Storm clouds were gathering, darkening all the landscape except the valley lying to the west below them. The sun lighted it as if on purpose for this moment. Jim pointed to the glowing valley lying against a range of blue. "There, little girl," he said, "there is California! There is your kingdom!" Josephine D. Smith, as Ina Coolbrith was then called, was being brought to California by her mother, who in 1851 was running away (with her second husband) from the polygamy of the Mormon church. The family went to Los Angeles, and there Josephine published her first poems and married Robert Carsley in 1858. A tumultuous period followed, during which her marriage failed (it was dissolved in 1861) and her infant son died. In 1862, following a deep depression, she moved to the area which is associated with her name, now calling herself Ina Donna Coolbrith.

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Notable Oregonians: Joaquin Miller- Poet/Writer Notable Oregonians home Joaquin Miller, 1837-1913 Joaquin Miller was born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller on September 8, 1837. His parents were Quakers and his father was a magistrate in Indiana. In 1852, the family moved to Oregon, traveling with two heavily laden wagons, eight oxen yoked to each, a carriage, and two horses. The three thousand mile trip took over seven months. They settled near Eugene, Oregon where they established a home and farm. Miller and a friend set off to California in search of gold in 1855 and subsequently worked in a number of mining camps. He reported that he was severely wounded in a battle between the settlers near Mt. Shasta and the Modoc Indians when an arrow pierced his face and exited the back of his neck. He later survived other battles with northern California Indian groups, and had several altercations with the law over matters relating to the ownership of livestock and gun play. Miller attended Columbia College in in Eugene City from 1857 to 1858. He taught school, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. From 1861 to 1862 Miller rode pony express from Walla Walla to Idaho mines but he soon returned to Eugene City to become a newspaper editor. In his newspaper

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