GIT UP AND GO
A HISTORY OF CORNISH MINING FAMILIES
By Arthur Langford
Author charts the story of the Harris family of Bolenowe in Cornwall. He records the life of John Harris (1820-1884) the famous miner-poet and of six family members who immigrated to the USA in search of a new life between 1845-1865 as well as of those who stayed in Cornwall and their descendants.
Langford describes working conditions in the famous Dolcoath mine at Camborne during the 1830's and 1840's and the grim conditions experienced on board ship by the emigrants.
He tells of lead mining in Wisconsin; copper mining in Upper Michigan and gold mining in Victoria, Australia. He paints a picture of pioneer life in the Midwest from 1840-1860 and tells of a family member who fell over 300 feet in a mine in the USA but survived to go homesteading! Another family story tells of a Harris who returned from a fruitless gold mining expedition to Nova Scotia with only a dollar in his pocket, but went on to become director and agent of the great Quincy mine at Hancock, Michigan.
Many experiences and stories in this book mimic the lives of many other Cornish of the time period. The title of the book comes from a slogan used by a Harris family member on a series of newspapers he started: "Tis not by wealth or fame or fate, but GIT UP AND GO that makes men great."
Hardcover, dust jacket, 8 1/2 X 11, black and white photos, 240 pages, reduced from $65 to $35.
and stories mimic the lifes of many Cornish who either stayed or left Cornwall
