Cincinnatus Heine Miller (/ˌsɪnsɪˈneɪtəs ˈhaɪnə/; September
8, 1837 â€" February 17, 1913), better known by his pen name Joaquin
Miller (/hwÉ'Ë ËˆkiË n/), was an American poet, author, and
frontiersman. He is nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras" after the
Sierra Nevada, about which he wrote in his Songs of the Sierras
(1871).Joaquin Miller's parents were Hulings Miller and Margaret (née
Witt), who married January 3, 1836, in Union County, Indiana. Their
second son, Cincinnatus Hiner Miller, was born in 1837 near Union
County, Indiana. For unknown reasons, Miller later claimed his birth
date was November 10, 1841. He said he was born in Millersville,
Indiana, a town he claimed was founded by his father, while on a wagon
heading west. After leaving Union County, Miller's father then moved
the family to Grant County, Indiana to a location near the
Mississinewa River and near the Miami Indian Reservation. Besides
adopting the pen name "Joaquin", he later changed his middle name from
Hiner to Heine to evoke the German poet Heinrich Heine.While Miller
was a young boy, probably between 1850 and 1852, his family moved to
Oregon and settled in the Willamette Valley, establishing a farm in
what would become Lane County.As a young man, he moved to northern
California during the California Gold Rush years, and had a variety of
adventures, including spending a year living in a Native American
village, and being wounded in a battle with Native Americans. A number
of his popular works, Life Amongst the Modocs, An Elk Hunt, and The
Battle of Castle Crags, draw on these experiences. He was wounded in
the cheek and neck with an arrow during this latter battle,
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