Joaquin Miller

Joaquin Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner actually Miller ( born March 10, 1839 in Liberty, Indiana, † February 17, 1913 in Oakland, California ) was an American writer.

Miller's date of birth is disputed. Apart from the official date also November 10, 1841 is occasionally reported.

Miller's parents were Quakers. 1852 emigrated to Oregon, where they settled as farmers in the valley of the Willamette River. During the gold rush Miller went to California to work in several Schürfercamps. In the following years he was - claims to be - involved in fights with Indians, in which he was repeatedly wounded. Maybe it involves, however, to the excessive Adventurous tales.

It is however certain that Miller in Oregon studied law and then went looking for gold to Idaho. At the beginning of the Civil War he returned to Oregon, where he acquired a newspaper, the Eugene City Democratic Register and worked as a journalist and editor.

In 1868 he published his first book, a volume of poetry. In 1870 he went to England, where he quickly became a literary sensation, including his role as an American Outdoorsman, who had experienced the gold rush and fought with the Indians, contributed not a little.

1883 Miller returned back to the U.S. and settled in Oakland. During the gold rush in Alaska Miller went to the Klondike, where he reported as a journalist and allegedly also scraped some gold itself.

Works

• Specimens. 1868
• Pacific Poems. 1870
• Songs of the Sierras. 1871
• Life Among the Modocs. 1873
• Memories and Rime. 1874
• Songs of Summer Lands. 1892