Frontier Partisan Bookshelf

Max Boot pisses me off. He was one of the neo-con cheerleaders for the Iraq invasion, which I considered wrong-headed and wrong-hearted from the very beginning. And he obviously hasn’t changed his mind: It is true that we paid a heavy price for the last decade of interventionism, in lost and mangled lives and spent [...]

  I read the covers off Brian Garfield’s “Wild Times.” How I loved this tale of a fictional Wild West showman, a rival to Buffalo Bill named Col. Hugh Cardiff. His picaresque adventures across the West from the 1860s through the early 20th Century were a lasting delight. I came to the book through watching [...]

The Frontier Partisans I write about here are indisputably heroic. In the classical sense, that is. They display extraordinary physical courage and skill in overcoming great odds in battle. They don’t have to be “good guys” to be heroic — just badass. But there is a different kind of heroism that was certainly more important in [...]

Dave Stamey is a hell of a storyteller. A few years back, we booked Stamey at the Sisters Folk Festival and a finer gentleman you could never hope to meet. The California cowboy writes some great Western tunes and is, so I am told, a fine hand on the trail. He’s the real deal. His [...]