MILLER, ITEINE. better known as.Jo.‘Qt•mx \Iii 1.u01 ( 1541—). An American au thor. born in the IYahash District, 'Indiana, No vember 10. 1841. In 1851 his parents took him to Oregon. Later he became a miner in Cali fornia. Ile was a volunteer in Walker's Nica ragua expedition of 1835. From 1853 until 1860 lie lived among the Indians of the Pacific Coast. Ile studied law for a while, then edited a Demo cratic pi per at Eugene City, Ore., which was sup pressed by the authorities for disunion senti ments. in 1863 he began to practice law and was a district judge in Oregon from 1866 to 1870. After visiting the Eastern States Miller went to England, where, in the following year, he pub lished his Songs of the Sit-eras, which made hiln it temporary •lion' in London society, although the same poems had fallen lint in the United States. lie afterwards settled in New York, but he left that city in order to do journalistic work in Washington, D. C'., and in Oakland, Cal.
(1557), settling at last in Oakland. Among his works in verse are: Songs of the Sun land (1873) ; Songs of Italy (1578) ; Songs of the lb riot); Setts (1887): in prose: The hanites in the Sierras (a novel, 1881) 49, or the Gold Sc, kers of the Sierras 1884 ) tcr's play. The Danitrs, taken from his novel, had eensiderable success, and his poetry has received sonic favorable notice, more on account of its genuinely romantic content and its brilliant if crude color, than on account of its artistic excel lence. A collective edition of his verses appeared in 1597. The name 'Joaquin' was taken from Joaquin Sinivtta. a Mexican bandit, of whom ',Miller wrote a defense.