THE HARD ROCK MEN
BY John Rowe
This is one of the best accounts of the Cornish mighration to America, why they left Cornwall and how they adapted to the new world.
Rowe in talking of the Cornish influences stated in part, "Places like Mineral Point, Grass Valley, Butte and Jerome were little different from St. Allen, Illogan, Pensilva and Gunnislake," (In Cornwall).
Book is illustrated with many early photos and others were taken by Rowe who traveled the trails from east to west, re-tracing the steps of the Cornish pioneers.
This book brings alive the personalities, the hopes and hardships of men of the first Western U.S. mining frontier and those Cornish communities which have made their very individual contributions to the building of the American nation.
Card covers, photos, 6x9, 322 pages, $20
