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His cabin . . . still stands in the little town, but when I first sa... ... 1920... showed marks everywhere bot... age and prolonged neglect... . The building was servin... the momen... the buttress for discarded lumber and firewood, and chickens scratche... the mold abou... . But... the bright afternoo... a n Eastern Oregon September, the place was not wholly beref... the aspect... a shrine. The tree... planted could now lift their softening foliage abov...
Can yon Creek still ra... ... jus... i n the old days; and beyond was the rimrock upon whic... gaze... creative meditation. My guide was a high school boy just returned from foot ball practice. Replyin... a remark that the cabin probably did not mean much locally... said: “No, it’s just lik... old shack around here mostly.” The boy’s vie... that time was not fully share... the older populatio... the town, and two years later... the summe... 1922, the cabin was made into a Joaquin Miller museum, with greater attention focused upo... s preserva tion. Canyon City staged a pony express rac... 187 miles, built “Whiskey Gulch... Caynon Cree... fron... the cabin, and summoned Juanita Miller from Oakland. She brought with her, “for keepsake... papa's old cabin,... s quill pen, som... his manuscript, and his last whiskey jug, Mrs. Emma Hazeltine, still livin... Canyon Cit... the tim... my visit, had been Joaquin Miller’s neighbor and had known him and Mrs. Miller well. “Minnie Myrtle,” she said, “was just abou... good a poe... Joaquin was, but she didn’t have muc... a chanc... write. Joaquin kin... neglected her. One day my sister and I were visiting Mrs. Miller, who had a trunk ope... sho... some souvenirs. The little girl was clingin... the stra... the top, which was liabl... come dow... her hand, when Joaquin cam... and stepped over and slapped he... har... h e could... was very embarrassing. Mrs. Miller trie... smoot... ove... saying her husband was alarmed for the safet... the child.... F . Chandler, edito... The Blue Mountain Eagle, says that when Joaquin Miller returned for
