Identity elements
Reference code
5.5.3--WIL (H)-057
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
WIL (H)-057
Date(s)
- 1910 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1870-1957)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Portrait of Joaquin Miller (born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller in 1837) was an Oregon writer and poet who later achieved fame as the "Poet of the Sierras." Miller is wearing a fringed buckskin jacket, fringed pants, gun holster, and a white beard and handlebar mustache. Joaquin Miller worked in Oregon as a newspaper editor and judge before moving to California in 1870. After touring Europe, Miller returned to California in 1883 and settled in Oakland, his last home, where an elementary school and park are named after him. Photograph by Major Thomas Leander (Lee) Moorhouse, c. 1910.