Title: David Frakes Day, Civil War hero and notorious frontier newspaperman
Description: "After the start of the Civil War David Frakes Day told the "patriotic lie" when he falsified his age and enlisted in 57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Day's postwar career as a journalist in Colorado proved no less treacherous. In this biography, Day takes his rightful place among the intriguing figures of the Civil War and the American West"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Journalists, Newspaper editors, United States, United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 57th (1861-1865), Biography, History, United states, army, Ohio, biography, Journalists, biography, Colorado, biography, Ohio, history
Places: Ohio, Colorado
People: David F. Day (1847-1914)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865