from Wikipedia:
Cincinnatus Heine Miller (September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913), better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller, was a colorful American poet and frontiersman. He is nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras" after the Sierra Nevada, about which he wrote in his Songs of the Sierras (1871).
Miller built this little house in the Oakland hills and lived here during his later years, welcoming various arty types as his visitors. One of Oakland's East Bay regional parks is named for him. Before the neighborhood was developed with private housing, the little cottage had a grand view of the Bay.
Joaquin Miller Regional Park now surrounds and protects the house.
www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/opr/s/Parks/JoaquinMiller/
from the park website:
The redwoods in Joaquin Miller Park are considered to be one of the few Redwood forests to flourish today in an urban setting. Most notably, native Coast Redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) grow throughout the park. Many are in the second or third growth following major logging in the late 1800s and early 1900s when the redwoods were used to help build Oakland, San Francisco and other booming cities of the time. Of the thousands of trees planted under Joaquin Miller's leadership, many still stand today. 