Miller, JOAQUIN, the pen-name of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller, an American poet, born in Indiana, in 1841. Removing with his parents to Oregon in 1854, he became a miner in California, was with Walker in Nicaragua, and afterwards lived with the Indians till 1860. He then studied law in Oregon, and set up in practice in 1863, after a Democratic paper that he edited had been suppressed for disloyalty. He was a county judge from 1866 to 1870, and then visited Europe; in England his first volume of verse was published. He afterwards settled as a journalist in Washington, and in 1887 in California. In 1890 he revisited England.
His poems include Songs of the Sierras (1871), of the Sunlands (1873), of the Desert (1875), of Italy (1878), and of the Mexican Seas (1887); his prose works, The Danites in the Sierras (1881), Shadows of Shasta (1881), and '49, or the Gold-seekers of the Sierras (1884). He also wrote The Danites, a successful play, and My Life among the Modocs (1873).