Dan Snow serves up a solid History Hit documentary on the battle of Camden, South Carolina, in August, 1780. Camden was a strategically important hub on the Great Wagon Road, which ran from Philadelphia south and a little west into the backcountry of the southern colonies. General Horatio Gates, the victor of Saratoga (thanks to Benedict Arnold) … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Rebels & Revolutions
Working The Trapline — Ridin’ For The Brand & Swingin’ From The Gallows Pole
The outdoor grilling season is upon us. Both Lady Marilyn and Ceili scored at the 5.11 Tactical Trading Post on our gun-running raid a week ago. I’m not the only walking 5.11 billboard in the Clan. Everyone needs a tactical grilling apron, right? Especially when you can rep Frontier Partisans with a morale patch. My girls are ridin’ for the brand. … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Ridin’ For The Brand & Swingin’ From The Gallows Pole
Folklore Fennario
After a couple hours of banging on the first episode of the Mexican Revolution podcast series (ready to record this week) I was poking around the Interwebs and cut the trail of The Folklore Cycle by John Hood. I am utterly charmed. Hood, a former journalist, has crafted what he describes as a young adult crossover series of yarns that live at … [Read more...] about Folklore Fennario
Call Me ‘Many Hoops’
A few weeks back I recounted Clan Cornelius’s Astoria raid, and I made mention of an aspect of the operation that remained classified. That’s because I wanted this particular piece of plunder in hand before I crowed about it. I didn’t expect it to take SIX WEEKS to get it done — but that’s Oregon for ya in the year of 2023. Here’s the … [Read more...] about Call Me ‘Many Hoops’
Ungentlemanly Warfare
“Ungentlemanly Warfare” is an excellent way to describe Frontier Partisans action. Just ask the likes of Timothy Murphy or The Great Rascal Benjamin Whitcomb. Fighting dirty is a specialty of the Frontier Partisans. Western European conventional warfare is supposed to be more gentlemanly, at least in theory. By the desperate days of World War II, … [Read more...] about Ungentlemanly Warfare
Working The Trapline — Afghan Pursuit, Daylight Monsters & Roman Recon
“Country’s got the devil in it, Joe... The monsters ain’t just in the shadows — they’re in the broad damn daylight...” Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee return in July for the second season of Dark Winds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwwuQrGC7k * Reader Aaron noted the upcoming release of Warhorse One. Like The Covenant, it’s a pursuit … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Afghan Pursuit, Daylight Monsters & Roman Recon
Into The Sawgrass
By Rick Schwertfeger Captain, Frontier Partisans Southern Command “In The Guise of Manifest Destiny” Author Tim Robinson’s Manifest Destiny phrase in A Tropical Frontier: The Indian Fighter encapsulates it: Anglo-Americans saw dominance of the continent as their right and destiny. Through disease, subterfuge, and warfare, the Indigenous … [Read more...] about Into The Sawgrass
Death Of A Swashbuckler
The British actor Ray Stevenson died suddenly at age 58. No word on cause of death — he was hospitalized after a sudden illness while shooting a movie in Italy. Stevenson delivered two iconic Frontier Partisan roles — as Roman Legionary Titus Pullo in HBO’s Rome and as Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, in STARZ Black Sails. He had a knack for … [Read more...] about Death Of A Swashbuckler
Working The Trapline – Revolution, Rock & Roll And Buffalo Battles
Lady Marilyn pointed out that Jason Isbell has a role in the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon. So does Sturgill Simpson. Scorsese is tapping a couple of luminaries of Americana music. The film — which clocks in at a whopping 3-1/2 hours — appears to be a worthy one. Reports from Cannes depict a rhapsodic response. A 9-minute standing ovation is … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline – Revolution, Rock & Roll And Buffalo Battles
Ghosts Of Beirut
“I am not sorry to see the fact that he was perished from this world.” — Moshe Dagan, Mossad Chief 2002-2010 on the car bomb killing of Imad Mughniyeh I have long been fascinated by Imad Mughniyeh. A senior man in Hezbollah, he was a deadly enemy of the U.S. and Israel, deeply involved in operations in Lebanon that included the bombing of the … [Read more...] about Ghosts Of Beirut
