First Families of the Sierras

Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1876.

Price: $35.00

Hardcover. First edition. Hinge cracking, foxing, soiling to the boards else very good minus.

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Item #52023 First Families of the Sierras. Joaquin MILLER.

Joaquin Miller
birth name: Cincinnatus Heine Miller
born: 9/8/1837
died: 2/17/1913

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American poet and journalist whose best work conveys a sense of the majesty and excitement of the Old West. His best-known poem is "Columbus," with its refrain, "On, sail on!" once familiar to millions of American schoolchildren. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore