Joaquin Miller's retreat in Oakland, California

March 31, 1940

Typewritten note attached, ""The Hights" ߪ wooded retreat on a hillside in Oakland, California ߪ rock and forest background for the colorful career of Joaquin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras" .. Now maintained as a shrine." Handwritten note on back possibly says, "Cross crescent, & suns rays symbolizing spirituality, mentality and mortality over the door of Joaquin Miller's Abbey," in which he wrote his famous poem Columbus in 1892. Spending his later years [-ing] at "The Wigwam" on his land but further east. Where he left the flesh February 17th 1913."

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.