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JOAQUIN MILLER
in Memory, Poetry and Song At the California State building Treasure Island Friday, October 20, 1939 Program Book (5 1/2" by 8 1/2") 4 pages. Cover has a reproduction of a drawing of Joaquin Miller.
Music, speeches, and a play in celebration of Joaquin Miller.
Contains a short poem by Joaquin Miller. Creased from folding with tiny pinpricks, else good. Scarce surviving program. This is one of the many items from a family related collection of Joaquin Miller material we acquired many decades ago at auction. Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Heine Miller) 1837-1913 was a Western poet, author and frontiersman. He was nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras". His various other colorful occupations included being a miner, lawyer and judge, newspaperman, Pony Express rider, and horse thief. He associated with Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, Ina Coolbrith, Robert Browning, and actress Adah Isaacs Menken. Free shipping to USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS! |