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The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories By Joaquin Miller
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Capturing the fierce power and sublime beauty of California's wild landscape Although Joaquin Miller is widely viewed as one of the ''founding fathers'' of the literature of the west, this new edition of his classic work proves him to be a writer of considerable power and appeal, with something fresh and vital to say to the readers of today. First printed in 1873, Life Amongst the Modocs is based on Miller's years among the mining towns and Indian camps of northernmost California during the tumultuous 1850s. As a nature writer, he was among the first to capture the fierce power and sublime beauty of California's wild landscape. He was also a maverick in his portrayal of the state's emotional landscape, dealing as no one has before or since with themes such as loneliness and defeat, melancholy and rage, weakness and strength, joy and loyalty.
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Joaquin Miller was born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller on a farm near Liberty, Indiana, United States, on September 8, 1837. Joaquin Miller's parents were Hulings Miller and Margaret (née Witt), who married January 3, 1836, in Union County, Indiana. His parents set out for the West in 1852 and settled in the Willamette Valley, Ore.
He attended college briefly.
For a time Miller lived with northern California Indians near Mt. Shasta. He was implicated in the massacre of the Pit River Indians, he operated a pony-express service between the Idaho mines and the West Coast. In 1862 Miller became editor of the Democratic Register in Eugene, Ore. Before the year was over he had founded a new paper, the Eugene City Review.
Later Miller settled in a mining camp in Canyon City, Ore. He practiced law, worked a claim of his own, fought Indian harassment, and was elected judge of Grant County in 1866 for a 4-year term. For the next 10 years Miller pursued a literary career.
His first book of verse was Specimens (1868). It was followed by Joaquin et al (1869), a collection of 11 poems signed Cincinnatus Hiner, mostly sentimental doggerel and bad imitations of Edgar Allan Poe. His work had little success in America, so he sailed for London, a "passionate pilgrim" determined to sell his verses of life in the Far West. He printed Pacific Poems (1871) privately. An English publisher brought out Songs of the Sierras (1871), which launched Miller socially and commercially as the Kit Carson of poetry. His fame, however, was short-lived and his talent essentially thin.
A tour of Italy produced a curious novel, The One Fair Woman (1876), and Songs of Italy (1878). By 1879 Miller was back in New York. Of the four plays he preserved, The Danites of the Sierras (1881), an obvious melodramatic story of the Mormons, was the most popular and made him a small fortune. In 1887, without his wife, he settled on 75 acres of barren hillside in Oakland, Calif. , to write more poetry and finish his utoplan romance, The Building of the City Beautiful (1893). He died at his beloved "Hights" in February 1913.
He is famous for his book Songs of the Sierras, which finalized his nickname as the "Poet of the Sierras" and the "Byron of the Rockies". He may have been more of a celebrity in England than in his native U. S. Much of his reputation, however, came not from his poetry but from the image he created for himself by capitalizing on the stereotypical image of Western frontiersmen.
Several schools in California are named for him, including Miller Middle School in San Jose, Joaquin Miller Elementary School in Oakland, and Joaquin Miller Elementary School in Burbank.
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In his time, Miller was known for his dishonesty and womanizing.
Quotes from others about the person
Ambrose Bierce called Miller "the greatest-hearted man I ever knew", he was "the greatest liar this country ever produced. He cannot, or will not, tell the truth. "
He was widely rumored to have married an Indian woman, possibly a Wintu princess who nursed him back to health after he was wounded by Modocs, and to have fathered with her a daughter named Cali-Shasta, or "Lily of the Shasta. "
Miller married Theresa Dyer on September 12, 1862. The couple had three children: Maud, George, and Henry, although Miller would later claim the baby Henry was not his own. The court declared them divorced on April 19 and Dyer was granted custody of the baby while the two older children were left in the care of her mother. He never denied her charges that he was neglectful of her and their children and was rarely home. He also may have had an affair with actress Adah Isaacs Menken shortly into the marriage.
Miller married for a third time on September 8, 1879, Abigail Leland, in New York City.
