Bland, Henry Meade; Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913; Nature; People; Poets; Postcards; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Black-and-white photograph on postcard of San Jose State English Professor and poet Henry Meade Bland with Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras, circa 1910.
The artist made this painting based on Moses Schallenberger's description of his cabin at Truckee Lake Camp (today known as Donner Lake). He described it as a windowless cabin twelve by fourteen feet, covered with rawhide and brush as a roof, with...