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| Title: | This Soldier Life
: The Diaries of Romine H. Ostrander, 1863 & 1865, in Colorado Territory |
| Author: | Paul A Malkoski |
| ISBN: | 0942576519 : 9780942576511 |
| Illustrations: | 4 maps |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 130 |
| Weight: | .278 Kg. |
| Published: | University Press of Colorado - February 2007 |
| List Price: | 13.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Social & cultural history: Colorado: True stories: war/combat/elite forces: American history: c1800 to c1900: Civil war |
Romine Ostrander, born in 1837 in Roseville, Illinois, had made his way to Colorado as a private in the First Colorado Cavalry by the time he was twenty-five. On 26 February 1863, he bought a small, leather-bound diary; over the next three years he filled this volume and two more with his thoughts, travels, and frustrations. The delicate, well-worn diaries accompanied the private in his saddlebags over miles of dusty Colorado trails, but eventually they disappeared. The 1863 and 1865 journals resurfaced in 1922 in a warehouse in Fresno. Annotated for historic interest but otherwise unedited, they offer a fascinating and infectious read -- the young author creates a vivid portrait of frontier Colorado and comments on the events of his day: the Sand Creek Massacre, the Civil War, Lee's surrender, and his own encounters with Arapahos, Cheyennes, Comanches, Apaches, and Cherokees.
Preface; Ostrander's 1863 Itinerary; Diaries of Romine H Ostrander; Notes; Index.
