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 1871

1873- In London, on the Continent, in Egypt and Palestine. 1880 1881- Lived in New York City and Washington, D. C. 1885 1883. Minnie Myrtle Miller died in New York City. 188-. "In the early eighties" he married Abbie Lei and, "sister of the well-known Lelands of hotel fame in New York." They had one daughter, Juanita. 1885. Settled on The Hights, above Oakland. His well-to-do wife did not choose to live with him there until near his death. 1897— Newspaper correspondent in the Klondyke. While lost in 1898. the snow a toe was frozen off. He joked about it around the campfire : "I'm the most no-toe-rious poet in America." 1899. In China to the Boxer War as a newspaper correspondent. 1905. Was a conspicuous figure at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland. The Oregon Journal Souvenir View Book of the fair contained a full-page picture of him in his flowing hat, long hair, boots and Prince Albert coat, with one hand in his pocket and the other resting on the neck of one of Homer Davenport's Arabian horses. 1907. Revisited Canyon City. Wrote A Royal Highway of the World as a long letter to the county commissioners of Grant and Harney Counties, describing a stage trip from Canyon City to Burns, over what is now the smooth state highway known as the Joaquin Miller Trail. 1913. Died at his home on The Hights. 1923. Stuart P. Sherman edited the Poetical W oris of Joaquin Miller, with a biographical sketch which cast doubts upon his ever having been with Walker in Nicaragua. The author of this book stopped to talk to George Melvin Miller on the streets of Eugene and, referring to Sherman's statement, asked: "Was he in Nicaragua?" The poet's brother tapped his chest and cryptically replied : "Whether he was or not is locked here in my bosom." 1932. A Royal Highway of the W orld made into a beautiful book by the Metropolitan Press, so that the first two and the last one of his books were published in Portland. An account of his life in Canyon City is given in the introduction to A Royal Highway of the Worlds from which a few paragraphs will be q