The Californian was a San Francisco literary periodical issued monthly during 1880–1882, published by Anton Roman who had helped found the earlier (and later) "Overland Monthly". "The Californian" was a continuation of the "Overland Monthly" after its 1875 cessation, and changed back into the "Overland Monthly" in late 1882.
History.
"The Californian" was first edited by Frederick M. Somers as a purely Western-focused magazine. Some have called it "Somers' Californian" to distinguish it from an earlier 1860s newspaper, "The Californian", and from the later "Californian Illustrated Magazine" funded by Charles Frederick Holder and edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman. The first editorial statement, in the first issue, was {
Contributors included Joaquin Miller, Edward Rowland Sill, Ambrose Bierce, John Muir, Josiah Royce, Joseph LeConte, Charles Edwin Markham Yda Hillis Addis, Katharine Lee Bates, Kate Douglas Wiggin and Ina Coolbrith.
A half year after publication began, the reaction in other periodicals was good. In California, the "San Francisco Bulletin" said the new magazine was "a serial which more and more proves its claim to be no unworthy successor of "The Overland"..." The "Oakland Tribune" wrote that "[i]t is a capital magazine, creditable to its editor and contributors, and a proud monument to the originality and culture of the Pacific Coast." Praise for the magazine spread eastward, too. The "Daily Hawkeye" in Burlington, Iowa noted that "the articles it contains are fully equal to those in the Eastern periodicals. It is a credit to the Pacific Coast". In Philadelphia, the "Chronicle-Herald" noticed that "many of the contributors are women, some of whom write with much grace and force. There is the odor of the Pacific about the whole publication, which deserves to win its way into many Eastern homes."
Lawyer and poet Charles Henry Phelps followed Somers as editor. Phelps edited the periodical until it folded in September 1882. The editors and contributors published "The Californian and Overland Monthly" for three months beginning in October 1882, then in January, 1883 dropped the word "Californian" entirely to revive the old "Overland Monthly".
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