The biathlon season got underway in Finland over the weekend and the amazing Dorothea Wierer got off to a great start, taking the 15km Individual race by a bare 0.8 seconds over Germany’s Denise Hermann. The win — Doro’s 17th career victory — was down to perfect shooting. The back-to-back overall World Champion 2019/2020 shoots the lights out. … [Read more...] about And They’re Off!
Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — The Rifle That ‘Made’ Buffalo Bill
William F. Cody made his reputation and earned the monicker that made him internationally famous with an 1866 Allin Conversion Springfield Rifle, caliber .50-70. The Allin Conversion turned the Civil War era muzzleloading rifled musket into a single-shot breechloader. It was the precursor to the legendary Springfield Trapdoor 1873 in .45-70, … [Read more...] about Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — The Rifle That ‘Made’ Buffalo Bill
Happy Thanksgiving
Whatever your Thanksgiving looks like this year, I hope it is a good un. … [Read more...] about Happy Thanksgiving
Trail Of Tears
The brutal blows of 2020 keep falling. Another great Texas singer-songwriter has gone up the trail. Hal Ketchum fought a long, courageous battle against an array of health problems over the past two decades, and now has succumbed to the effects of dementia. May he at last be at rest. Ketchum had one of the purest voices in country music. He was … [Read more...] about Trail Of Tears
Thanksgiving Is A Date On The Calendar
It’s been a rough week in these parts. Colleagues and friends have suffered profound losses. Oregon is in a “two week freeze” in an attempt to blunt a major spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, including here in Deschutes County. The blast radius of the coronavirus has crept uncomfortably close in recent days. We had planned to trek … [Read more...] about Thanksgiving Is A Date On The Calendar
Frontier Living
The other day, I stumbled across a post on Facebook that sent me right back to my youth, sitting on the edge of my bed in a tiny bedroom in La Crescenta, California, completely absorbed in the words and pictures of Edwin Tunis. For several years running when I was probably 10-12 years old, I got for my birthday or Christmas a volume of Tunis’s … [Read more...] about Frontier Living
The Frontier Partisan Balladry Of Jimmy Buffett
One of the silver linings in the dark cloud that has loomed over the Year 2020 is that I’ve been sitting in my living room simply playing songs more than I have in years. Not rehearsing, not even practicing — just playing songs. Learning some new ones, digging out some old ones. Most of my writing effort has been here and in creating the … [Read more...] about The Frontier Partisan Balladry Of Jimmy Buffett
A Tip O’ The Hat To Lynn Woodward
Look, we’ve all heard the saying that you can’t judge a book by its cover — and we all know it’s BS. Doesn’t matter how brilliant your words are if the presentation doesn’t catch they eye and maybe get the pulse rate up a bit. It’s a cinch that Frontier Partisans would not be what it is without the work of Lynn Woodward. She designed this blog … [Read more...] about A Tip O’ The Hat To Lynn Woodward
American Axe
There is no more fundamental frontier tool than the axe. From the Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi River and from the Rockies to the Pacific Shore, this was the implement that shaped America. A professional woodsman has written a loving tribute to this fine tool, and it’s going to have to find a place on the Frontier Partisan Bookshelf. Are you … [Read more...] about American Axe
Boone’s Bones
It’s a good thing I enjoy the company of Daniel Boone. He keeps showing up in my path. The esteemed Ted Franklin Belue’s new one is out: Finding Daniel Boone is a unique tribute to America's frontier hero and offers closure to the greatest of all his mysteries: where he was buried. Part biography, part historical travelogue and eloquently … [Read more...] about Boone’s Bones
