A statue dedicated to Joaquin Miller in Hoo Hoo Park in McCloud, California

Songs of the sun-lands.: By Joaquin Miller. (umich.edu)

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AAS1313.0001.001/61?rgn=full+text;view=image

I can not tell you enough how important the friendship of Joaquin Miller, and the Rossetti family, is, to the history and future of Oregon and California. Miller grew up ten miles from Springfield Oregon. He would travel to Britain and have dinner with the Pre-Raphaelites. He had Japanese Poets living on his Bohemian Mecca in Oakland. Takeshi Kanno was a guest. He was on a cultural mission of the Emperor of Japan. There is talk about Russia and Japan having another war. Today, Japan and Britain signed a pact that resembles the one that Chruchill instigated. Everything has come – to fruition!

All my hard work – is not it vain. I am going to approach Disney about making a trilogy about Joaquin Miller, who was a…