[Rarebooks] FS: UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT about the Alaskan Gold Rush by the Buffalo Bill of American Literature

[Charles Agvent]

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MILLER, Joaquin. UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: ALASKAN. "LET THERE 
BE LIGHT" . First Edition. Folio (8-1/4" x 11-3/4") consisting of 53 
pages numbered to 54 (one page contains two numbers) on lined yellow 
paper with a few additions at the end on white paper pasted to the 
yellow pages with a calligraphic title page facing a photographic 
reproduction of Miller. Bound in 3/4 maroon morocco leather and marbled 
boards housed in a slipcase of full burgundy morocco leather. Though 
some of the phrases, such as the title, are used in other of Miller's 
works, this long narrative poem appears to be unpublished. The poem 
begins: "In the morning of the world;/Ere the holy stars were 
born--/Early morning of the world;/O, that wondrous, wondrous morn!" We 
have at this point not read much else because our lives are short and 
Miller's handwriting is trying, but we are fairly confident that the 
text deals at least in part with the Alaskan Gold Rush of the 1890s as 
Miller visited the Klondike during that time returning to California 
after six months, exhausted from his adventures, with thousands of 
dollars of gold dust and $6,000 from a publisher for his Alaskan 
letters. Fine and rare, beautifully bound.

The "Poet of the Sierras," also known as the Buffalo Bill of American 
literature, Miller was indeed one of the more colorful authors of the 
late 19th century, known for fabricating many features of life. While 
still a boy he headed from Oregon to California during the early gold 
rush where he worked in a number of mining camps. He survived several 
battles with Indians as well as several altercations with the law. He 
earned his keep mostly from mining and the Pony Express before his 
writing sustained him. (#017375)        $25,000.00

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