Literary California: Poetry, Prose and Portraits

• Ella Sterling Mighels — Compiler (“The Gatherer”), original introduction, and writer
• Harr Wagner — Publisher and writer
• Brian Kim Stefans — Editorial introduction and digital edition apparatus
• Thomas F. Flynn — Prose writer
• Rollin Mallory Daggett — Poet and prose writer
• Jerome A. Hart — Poet and prose writer
• Joaquin Miller — Poet and prose writer
• Anna Catherine Markham — Poet
• Chester Rowell — Prose writer
• Edward Robeson Taylor — Poet and prose writer
• James W. Foley — Poet
• George Douglas — Poet and prose writer
• Clarence Urmy — Poet and prose writer
• Edwin Markham — Poet and prose writer
• Lorenzo Sosso — Poet and prose writer
• Richard Realf — Poet and prose writer
• Richard Edward White — Poet
• Benjamin Ide Wheeler — Prose writer
• Mary V. Tingley Lawrence — Poet and prose writer
• N. J. Bird — Prose writer
• Mrs. M. M. Bay — Poet and prose writer
• S. Hartman — Poet and prose writer
• Bret Harte — Poet and prose writer
• William H. Mills — Prose writer
• Adelaide T. Holmes Bausman — Prose writer
• A. E. — Poet and prose writer
• John Steven McGroarty — Poet and prose writer
• Charles Henry Webb — Poet
• Ella M. Sexton — Poet
• Ina Coolbrith — Poet and prose writer
• Kenneth Campbell — Poet and prose writer
• Thomas Nunan — Poet
• Lillian H. S. Bailey — Poet
• Bailey Millard — Poet and prose writer
• Henry T. Fee — Poet
• Joseph Thompson Goodman — Poet and prose writer
• Samuel M. Shortridge — Prose writer
• Nathan Newmark — Poet and prose writer
• M. H. de Young — Prose writer
• George Sterling — Poet
• John P. Young — Prose writer
• Mary Austin — Prose writer
• James D. Phelan — Prose writer
• Fred Emerson Brooks — Poet
• Eliza A. Otis — Poet
• Honoria R. P. Tuomey — Poet
• Maurice V. Samuels — Poet
• Edward A. Pollock — Poet
• Charles Fayette McGlashan — Prose writer
• William D. Stephens — Prose writer
• Clara K. Wittenmyer — Prose writer
• Howard V. Sutherland — Poet and prose writer
• Zoeth S. Eldredge — Poet and prose writer
• Merle Robbins Lampson — Poet
• Daniel O'Connell — Poet
• Margaret Collier Graham — Poet and prose writer
• Jacob Voorsanger — Prose writer
• Kate Waters — Poet and prose writer
• Herbert Bashford — Poet and prose writer
• John J. Barrett — Prose writer
• Berton Braley — Poet and prose writer
• Millicent Washburn Shinn — Poet and prose writer
• Waldemar Young — Poet
• Jack London — Poet and prose writer
• Robert Wilson Murphy — Prose writer
• June Goodrich — Poet
• Noah Brooks — Prose writer
• Harry J. W. Dam — Poet and prose writer
• Sterling B. F. Clark — Prose writer
• William Randolph Hearst — Prose writer
• Louis J. Stellman — Poet
• Charles K. Field — Poet
• Frank Norris — Prose writer
• William Henry Rhodes — Poet
• Wallace Bruce — Poet
• Flora Haines Loughead — Poet and prose writer
• Philip Verrill Mighels — Poet
• Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins — Prose writer
• William F. Burbank — Poet
• Anna Morrison Reed — Poet and prose writer
• Ina L. Cook — Poet
• Samuel D. Woods — Prose writer
• Bartholomew Bowling — Poet
• T. Robinson Warren — Poet and prose writer
• Helen Dare — Poet and prose writer
• David Lesser Lezinsky — Poet
• Gabriel Furlong Butler — Poet and prose writer
• Louis Alexander Robertson — Poet
• Agnes Tobin — Poet
• Jeremiah Lynch — Prose writer
• Patrick S. Dorney — Poet
• Daniel S. Richardson — Poet
• Charles Warren Stoddard — Poet
• Frank Alumbaugh — Poet
• William C. Morrow — Poet and prose writer
• Charles Elmer Jenney — Poet and prose writer
• Charles Grissen — Poet
• David E. W. Williamson — Poet
• Elizabeth Chamberlain — Poet
• Mark Twain — Poet and prose writer
• Sarah Connell — Prose writer
• John F. Davis — Prose writer
• Charles B. Turrill — Prose writer
• Anna Cowan Sangster — Poet and prose writer
• John Rollin Ridge — Poet
• Florence Richmond — Poet
• David Starr Jordan — Prose writer
• Joseph D. Redding — Poet and prose writer
• John W. Overhall — Poet
• Holly Dean — Poet
• George Homer Meyer — Poet
• Henry A. Melvin — Poet
• Luc — Poet and prose writer
• Richard Lew Dawson — Poet
• Ben Field — Poet
• Wallace Irwin — Poet
• John G. Jury — Poet
• Ambrose Bierce — Poet
• Adley H. Cummins — Prose writer
• Theodore Bonnet — Prose writer
• Madge Morris Wagner — Poet
• Albert Sonnichsen — Prose writer
• Arthur L. Price — Poet and prose writer
• W. Kimball Briggs — Poet and prose writer
• Nathan Kouns — Poet
• Edward F. Cahill — Prose writer
• Newton Booth — Prose writer
• Franklin K. Lane — Poet and prose writer
• Edward DeWitt Taylor — Poet
• L. M. — Poet
• Lawrence Kip — Prose writer
• Agnes S. Taylor — Poet
• Agnes Lee — Poet
• Calvin B. McDonald — Prose writer
• Kate M. Bishop — Poet
• Alphonzo G. Newcomer — Poet
• Frank Rose Starr — Poet
• Ella Higginson — Poet and prose writer
• Sister Anna Raphael — Poet
• John D. Barry — Poet and prose writer
• Leonard S. Clark — Poet and prose writer
• Sarah Pratt Carr — Prose writer
• J. Ross Browne — Prose writer
• Gertrude Atherton — Prose writer
• Thomas Starr King — Prose writer
• Joseph Le Conte — Prose writer
• Ralph Bacon — Poet
• John Swett — Poet
• Rufus Steele — Poet
• Charles A. Keeler — Poet
• Sam Booth — Poet and prose writer
• Mrs. I. Lowenberg — Prose writer
• Mary E. Brusie — Prose writer
• Phil Francis — Poet and prose writer
• Alfred James Waterhouse — Poet and prose writer
• Harlan — Prose writer
• Annie Laurie — Prose writer
• Rife Goodloe — Poet
• Robert Louis Stevenson — Poet and prose writer
• Martha Trent Tyler — Poet
• John E. Richards — Poet
• Helen Hunt Jackson — Prose writer
• Charles Phillips — Poet
• Mary Therese Austin — Prose writer
• Walter Anthony — Prose writer
• George Hamlin Fitch — Poet and prose writer
• Edward F. O’Day — Prose writer
• Mrs. Mamie Peyton — Poet and prose writer
• E. H. Clough — Prose writer
• Etha R. Garlick — Poet
• Marcella A. Fitzgerald — Poet and prose writer
• Leland Stanford — Poet and prose writer
• Ethel Talbot — Poet and prose writer
• Lucius Harwood Foote — Poet
• Janet von Schroeder — Poet and prose writer
• Virna Woods — Poet
• Carrie Stevens Walter — Poet
• E. A. — Poet
• Lyman Goodman — Poet
• Fannie H. Avery — Poet and prose writer
• Rachel Hepburn Haskell (Mrs. D. H. Haskell) — Poet and prose writer
• M. S. Levy — Prose writer
• Sarah M. Williamson — Prose writer
• Emelie Tracy Y. Parkhurst — Poet
• Alice Denison Wiley — Poet
• Josephine Martin — Poet and prose writer
• Isidor Meyer — Poet
• Robert McKenzie — Prose writer
• William Bailsman — Poet
• Frances Charles — Poet and prose writer
• Mary E. Hart — Poet
• "Our" Peter Robertson — Poet and prose writer
• Thomas Guard — Prose writer
• John A. B. Fry — Poet and prose writer
• W. H. Platt — Prose writer
• Charles S. Greene — Poet
• Charles A. Murdock — Poet
• Anna B. Newbegin — Poet
• Edward Rowland Sill — Poet
• Eugenie H. Schroeder — Poet
• M. T. Dooling — Poet and prose writer
• Godfrey Barney — Poet and prose writer
• W. H. Carruth — Poet
• Miriam Michelson — Prose writer
• Chauncey McGovern — Poet and prose writer
• Clark Ashton Smith — Poet
• Edward H. Hamilton — Writer
• George H. Barron — Writer
• Francisco Palou — Writer
• Harriet M. Skidmore — Writer
• Eliza D. Keith — Writer
• Sergeant Thomas Kleckner — Writer
• Agnes M. Manning — Writer
• Annie E. K. Bidwell — Writer
• Al C. Joy — Writer
• J. H. — Poet
• Charles Mills Gayley — Writer
• Unknown author — Writer

Broad format

Anthologies

Collection

California Literature and Cultural Documents

Document type

Literary Anthology and Documentary Collection

Original title

Literary California: Poetry, Prose and Portraits

Original publication date

1918

Editor

Ella Sterling Mighels; Brian Kim Stefans (editorial introduction and digital edition apparatus)

Compiler

Ella Sterling Mighels, ‘Gatherer’

Original publisher

Harr Wagner Publishing Co.

Place of publication

San Francisco, California

Language

English

Pagination

Original scan: 432 PDF pages. Digital reading edition: 428 PDF pages.

Available editions

Reader’s Edition

Edition type

Digital Reading Edition

Subjects

Keywords

Ella Sterling Mighels Literary California Harr Wagner San Francisco California newspapers 1918

Continuity notes

Part of the shared Anthologies and Documents collection.

Edition note

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Source note

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Copyright notice

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Rights status

Public Domain

Rights basis

The original 1918 publication is in the public domain in the United States. New editorial introduction, apparatus, and design were prepared in 2026.

Suggested citation

Mighels, Ella Sterling, gatherer. Literary California: Poetry, Prose and Portraits. Harr Wagner Publishing Co., 1918. Text/Tech Anthologies and Documents, reader’s edition, 2026.