. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . ld fever orspirit of adventure took possession of him again and in 1861 we find him in thegold mines of Idaho; but the yellow metal did not come into his Pan sufficieutljrfast and he gave it up to become an express messenger in the mining district. Afew months later he was back in Oregon where he started a Democratic Newspaper386 JOAQUIN MILLER. g at Eugene City which he ran long enough to get acquainted mih a poetical contri-butor, Miss Minnie Myrtle, whom he married in 1862—in his usual sliort-dider wayof doing things—after an
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . ld fever orspirit of adventure took possession of him again and in 1861 we find him in thegold mines of Idaho; but the yellow metal did not come into his Pan sufficieutljrfast and he gave it up to become an express messenger in the mining district. Afew months later he was back in Oregon where he started a Democratic Newspaper386 JOAQUIN MILLER. g at Eugene City which he ran long enough to get acquainted mih a poetical contri-butor, Miss Minnie Myrtle, whom he married in 1862—in his usual sliort-dider wayof doing things—after an acquaintance of three days. Where Joaquin Miller—for he was now called Joaquin after a Spanish hrigand whom he had defended—got his education is a mystery; but through the years of wandering, even in boy-hood, he was a rhymester and his verses now began to come fast in the columns ofhis paper. In 1862, after his marriage he resumed the practice of law, and, in 1866, at theage of twenty-five, was elected Judge of Grant Countv. ^Phis position he held foi. JOAQUIN MILLER S STUDY, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. four years during which time he wrote much poetry. One day with his usualsuddenness he abandoned his wife and his country and sailed for London to seeka publisher. At first he was unsuccessful, and had to print a small volume introduced him to the friendship of English writers and his Songs of theSierras was issued in 1871. Naturally these poems were faulty in style and calledforth strong adverse criticism; but the tales they told were glowing and passionate,and the wild and adventurous life they described was a new revelation in the worldof song, and, verily, whatever the austere critic said, The common people heard himgladly and his success became certain. Thus encouraged Miller returned to Cali-fornia, visited the tropics and collected material for another work which he published
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