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Color and more recent photo of the cabin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Miller_cabin.jpg More information on this essayist, poet and adventurer can be found at: www.joaquinmiller.org/About/miller.html

On pages 385-386 of his book of memoirs, "Roadside Meetings" (1930) Hamlin Garland recalls a week he spent in Chicago in 1898, with the visiting Joaquin Miller: He [Miller] told us of his life in Washington City and of the log cabin he had built out near Rock Creek. "I made that my home for four years, but I was away much of the time. I didn't like it there. Congressmen and their silly wives wore me out. They all came to Washington as the great men in little towns, and their women, raw, silly, curious, had nothing better to do than to seek out Joaquin Miller, 'the man who lived in a tree.' They made life miserable for me and I fled."

Dedication ceremony of the reconstructed Joaquin Miller cabin, June 12, 1912: The cabin at its old location, on Washington, D. C.'s Meridian Hill, before it was dismantled and reconstructed in Rock Creek Park:

This shows University of California at Berkeley with Strawberry Canyon in the foreground and Centennial Stadium at lower left. To the left of the stadium is International House. The straight line street going up the picture is Bancroft Way.