Publications
He is considered one of the writers of the Sagebrush School with Joseph T. Goodman, Mark Twain, Fred H. Hart, Henry Rust Mighels, Dan DeQuille, Samuel Post Davis, John Franklin Swift, Charles Carroll Goodwin, Joseph Wasson, Rollin M. Daggett. and others.
Bret Hart commented that "of the three humorous writers: Twain, Miller, and Swift, the last was the greatest genius.
- Going to Jericho; or, Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East (1868)
- Grant And Wilson: Speech Of The Hon. John F. Swift,Delivered At Platt's Hall, July 9, 1872
- Robert Greathouse: An American Novel (1870)
- Robert Greathouse: A Story Of The Nevada Silver Mines (1878)
- The Present and Future of the University (1887)
- California a Republican state: Address to the Republicans of California (1888)
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