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Short Bio/Highlights
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Joaquin Miller was, America’s best loved poet, diarist, and storyteller. His life was an adventure, from his pioneer childhood to his literary heights and environmental leadership in the Bay Area. As playful as he was vibrant, Miller was always misunderstood by critics. But the incredible output that issued from his journeys through life—from his Northern California escapades to his Oregon citizenship to London Society to New York’s literary sphere—was woven with his passions: the magnificence of wilderness; justice for the underdog; the humility of humanity, and transcendence through art and nature.
Good bio on Oregon Cultural Heritage
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Connection to Miller
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Himself
Invented himself
Self-made
Self-chronicled
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Works
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Quick Link to Complete Poetical Works
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Quotes by
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After losing some toes to frostbite in Alaska, he joked that he was "the most no-toe-rious poet in America”.
Principles of The Hights:
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Quotes about
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“Joaquin MIller Went Walkin’” — Kristen Caven
“Deserted two wives, a patriarchal privilege of doing that over and over again…he was looked up to and those were some of his attributes.” - Corinna Gould
“More than anyone else, Joaquin Miller is the poet of our receding frontier.” — Bartleby.com
"The greatest-hearted man I ever knew" —Ambrose Bierce
"The greatest liar this country ever produced. He cannot, or will not, tell the truth.” —Ambrose Bierce
“A real poet, who had "heard in his soul the music of wonderful melodies. Joaquin Miller was a poet whose inspiration came from the mountain peak, the dizzy canon, the roaring cataract, the thunder's crash, the eagle's scream and the panther's whine. Nature was his text book and he read and followed her lessons closely.” — https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/583344193/
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Library Collections
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https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33016 - University of Oregon
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Notes/Cleanup
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