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Overland Monthly cover, January 1919
Overland Monthly was a monthly magazine based in California, United States, and published in the 19th and 20th century.
The magazine's first issue was in July 1868, and continued until the late 1875. The original publishers, in 1880, started The Californian, which became The Californian and Overland Monthly in October 1882. In January 1883, the effort reverted to The Overland Monthly (starting again with Volume I, number 1). In 1923 the magazine merged with Out West to become Overland Monthly and the Out West magazine, and ended publication in July 1935.
Famous writers, editors, and artists included:
- Ambrose Bierce
- Alice Cary
- Willa Cather
- Bret Harte
- Ina Coolbrith
- Edgar Fawcett
- Henry George
- John Brayshaw Kaye
- Clarence King
- Jack London
- Josephine Clifford McCracken
- Joaquin Miller
- John Muir
- Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl
- Stephen Powers - on California Native Americans.
- William Saroyan
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Charles Warren Stoddard
- Mark Twain
- Joseph Pomeroy Widney - contributed 8 articles.
Editors include:
- Milicent Shinn 1882-1894
External links
- Full Archive: University of Michigan
- Guide to the Overland Monthly Records at The Bancroft Library
References
- Online Books: University of Pennsylvania
Categories:- History of California
- History of the American West
- Defunct magazines of the United States
- Monthly magazines
- Magazine stubs
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