The cabin on the right was the home of Joaquin Miller as seen on September 18, 1958. Joaquin Miller (March 10, 1830-February 17, 1913) was an Oregon poet. His cabin at Canyon City, Oregon was made into a museum in 1922. The building next to the cabin is the Grant County museum. According to the sign over the entrance the museum exhibits old relics.
Joaquin Miller co-authored ‘The State of Montana’. He was commissioned by promoters who wanted to lure some of those Tourist Dollars up North. They wanted to show the world there was something there – there! Like what? In this scene from Vacation, Clarke Griswald is distracted from his fascination with the Beef Producers of America, by a beautiful blonde driving a Corvette – as fast as she wants! That’ll do it! See how the Japanese tourists go for their camera as she buzzes past their bus!
We got to get a smaller copy of Miller’s book in foreign hands, bound in fake leather. There’s mysterious stuff going on in America. Gypsy-Bohemian Campers are taking the Big Red Copy of Joaquin’s book, into tents with them! Unbreakable bonds are being made.
“Have you taken the Montana State of Mind Trip?”
It’s time to REOPEN AMERICA, now that those Persnickety Puritanical Healthcare Haters – have had their day! Giant Wall-building, may not be ready for a comeback.
https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00mill 
We hippies generated millions in tourist dollars, and founded a Free Clinic to take care of the young folks that came from all over the world for a chance to be half-naked with a beautiful Hippie Chick, like I was with Rena, who has done much to thwart the tourist industry in several cities and states, very possibly with the help of her classmate – who would do anything to get naked in a tent with my muse and drink wine by a candle stuck in a wine bottle, while an empty canvas awaits his Lust For Life. If I find a copy of ‘Beatnik Wanton’ I am going to turn it into a Ready Made autobiography. Rena’s pic will grace the second page. I will just X-out Don Elliott’s name, and put my name in his place. I think Don overdosed in a cave in the South of France.
Royal Rosamond was a promoter of California, and the Ozarks, along with Otto Rayburn, and Vance Randolph. Cartoonist, Al Capp, successfully exlpoited these Irish Mountian people, like no one before him. The compition between Daisy Mae, and Moonbeam McSwine, was witnessed by folks all over the world. If Joaquin and Rosamond had met, they would have become best of friends. They are cut from the same clothe. That Miller was a friend of my grandmother, brings these literary men into one Bohemian Ozark Picnic Basket.
When Rena gave me a poster of her taken in the woods outside Lincoln Nebraska by a fellow student, and, used to promote the UofN Oktoberfest, I had an orgasm that has not quit, for, Al Capp made me a Beautiful Shoulder Man when I was twelve. She is Nebraska. She is their State Treasure! C-mon! We can double those tourist figures, now that she lives in Montana. Don’t hemp sellers need a sexy representative, now that they are filling the tax coffers of Oregon, now that the revenooers are on their side?
“Get high on Green Moonbeams, and make whoopee thru the night!”
http://oregonstateparks.org/index.cfm?do=parkPage.dsp_parkPage&parkId=5
Above we see George Miller (who is not dead and stuffed) in front of his brother’s cabin he built in Canyon City, where Joaquin was elected Judge. The wire was put there to keep the monkeys from tearing off a shingle, and taking it home as a souvenir. Blanche Essex wrote ‘The Rose of Oregon’ that was published in the Overland Monthly. Because she is a woman, she gets to take all kinds of romantic liberties with Rosamond Ambrose, a woman with two Rose names. Rosamond swoons away in Oregon City. What is eerie, there are photos of Oregon’s rocky coast at the end of this story.
Vacation is Ozark Humor. The Wagon Queen Family Truckster is the vehicle for a brand of humor that refuses to roll over and die. Then, there is the promotion of Carmel – and Ventura – By The Sea. Now that the long priggish reign of the Healthcare Haters, is over…..time to get healthy again. Time to get in your cars – and see Sexy America – the Sexiest Nation on Earth!
Then there is the literary legacy of Ken Kesey, along with his adventures on The Wagon King Family Prankster. Someone’s got to be the Cultural Spokesperson for a Billion Dollar Industry, and, that person – is me!
Jon Presco
Promoter
The Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism recently distributed its annual report at the 2017 Governor’s Conference on Tourism in Little Rock. The report showed there was an increase in tourism spending in the Ozark Gateway Region from $295,480,490 to $311,024,689 and indicated a five percent increase of tourists’ visits over last season.
the Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana compiled preliminary numbers showing that out-of-state visitors fed almost $4 billion into Montana’s economy in 2014.
Tourism in Oregon is a $10.8 billion industry. Our industry directly generates more than 105,000 jobs in Oregon – with secondary impacts that create another 54,800 jobs. As a key driver in Oregon’s economy, what you do every day to support tourism matters. Together, we can do something even greater. Whether it’s timely research, tourism planning tools, or inspiration for your next marketing campaign, our aim is to provide resources to support the work that you do. We’d love to hear from you; let us know how we’re doing.
https://www.cardcow.com/524162/joaquin-miller-poet-sierras-at-his-home-oakland-california/
To help small businesses overcome cultural barriers and explain the value of unique Carmel products, the visitors bureau is putting together a plan to get shops “China Ready.”
The plan includes workshops and information on how to welcome a Chinese consumer to your store, how to cater to their preferred payment system and Chinese signage to explain items and pricing.
“We actually are giving out window clings that say ‘Welcome to Monterey’ in Chinese, and we’re encouraging businesses to put those on their windows so that Chinese visitors know that that business is welcoming is ready for them to come in,” said O’Keefe.
O’Keefe said he hopes the connections his organization is making overseas will get Chinese travel agencies to book longer stays in Monterey County. The tourism bureau said this is a huge undertaking and it’s multi-faceted, but it is worth it to harness the Chinese buying power.
Tourism in Monterey County is a 2.7 billion dollar industry (2015, Dean Runyan Associates).
- The number of tourism-generated jobs in Monterey County in 2015 was 24,390 full-time positions.
- 109 million dollars goes into local taxes (2015, Dean Runyan Associates).
- Monterey County’s core markets include the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley and Los Angeles.
In the September 1870 issue, Harte published what became his most well-known work, “Plain Language from Truthful James”, later known as “The Heathen Chinee“.[7] That year, with his popularity soaring, Harte considered a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley or an offer to purchase the Overland Monthly, but declined both. Instead, he left California and traveled east to seek broader literary fame.[8]
The original publishers, in 1880, started The Californian, which became The Californian and Overland Monthly in October 1882. In January 1883, the effort reverted to The Overland Monthly (starting again with Volume I, number 1). It was based in San Francisco until at least 1921.[9] In 1923 the magazine merged with Out West to become Overland Monthly and the Out West magazine, and ended publication in July 1935.
Miller himself was always a booster, a self-promoter. He lived in no less than 3 log cabins, in Canyon City, Washington D.C., and at “The Hights,” where he died in 1913.
We Oregonians must reclaim that Oregon lad who tripped around behind Mt. Shasta. There he kept an amazing diary of literary dreams, chutzpah, and sexual innuendo, his California Diary. His sister-in-law sent it to Ina Coolbrith — to burn it or not? Fortunately, she saved it!
The best of Joaquin Miller’s sketches and memoirs go back to his fresh and rambunctious formative years in Oregon. Let’s never forget our 19th century Webfoot bard who named himself after a Mexican bandido, Joaquin Murietta. He had enough public relations sense to claim friendship with a Modoc warrior. Long before Wounded Knee and the Nez Perc© war, this Oregon man passionately argued for a preserve for Native Americans, wherein they could roam free and unmolested in a primal Eden. We know instead the genocide of American history. Miller was the first to point out the shame, horror, bloodshed, and injustice of white dealings with native peoples. Unwritten History ought to be required reading for every schoolkid, just as Huckleberry Finn is today, where it isn’t banned!
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ambrose&id=I13805
GUIDED TOUR OF JOHN DAY & CANYON CITY CONTINUED
Greenhorn Jail
Next to the Oliver Museum, Canyon City
This building has also been resited next to the Oliver Museum. It is a small, one story, wood building. Greenhorn was a mining camp with a mailing list for about 2,000 people and a resident population between 500 and 700. For a time, the highest town in Oregon — 7,500 feet — today it is a ghost town nestled in the Blue Mountains about 15 miles south of Granite and north of the middle fork of the John Day River.
Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum
Adjacent to the City Park, John Day
This is a unique vernacular historical building. Now a most extraordinary museum containing a large collection of Chinese artifacts, it was constructed as a trading post on The Dalles Military Road in 1866-67 and also served as a general store, doctor’s office, Chinese temple, and center of the Chinese community. The 1862 gold rush brought over 2000 Chinese to Eastern Oregon including Ing Hay [known as Doc Hay] and Lung On, a businessman, who lived in the building until the 1940’s.
Joaquin Miller Cabin
Next to the Oliver Museum, Canyon City
This small wood frame cabin has been resited near the museum. It was built in 1865 and still contains many original furnishings. Cincinnatus Hiner [Joaquin] Miller was a writer, lecturer, and newspaper correspondent. He served as the first Grant County Judge from 1866 to 1870. His book of poetry “Speciments” was written while in Grant County. “Crossing the Plains” and “The Yukon” are his best known works.
The Johnson Building [Mosier’s Home Furnishings]
N.E. corner of N. Canyon Blvd. and Highway 26, John Day
This is another of the Romanesque buildings that are characterized by the use of massive walls and common in the John Day/Canyon City business district. It is a two story brick building with eight bays on the front elevation of the second story. Constructed in 1902, the original store contained a hardware store, a dry goods establishment, and a bank with a spacious hall on the second floor and was built by T.T. Kelly for a whopping $10,000 for the Johnson brothers. When the two brothers had a disagreement, there was a wall built down the center of the building to divide it into two separate businesses. The wall has since been removed.
This concludes the tour of Canyon City/John Day historical buildings.
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