“...In those parts it was wiser to travel ... well-armed and with a crew who all slept with one eye open and who understood each other like brothers.” — Captain Alonso de Contreras * I have never really given the Spaniards their due. Blame Anglophile tendencies. From tales of the Armada to Sir Henry Morgan’s exploits in Panama in 1671, up … [Read more...] about A Spanish Adventurer — The Wild Life Of Captain Alonso de Contreras — Part I
The Ranger Archetype
The Ranger Archetype is a load-bearing timber of the Frontier Partisans lodge. His is the quintessential Frontier Partisan role — a paramilitary scout, guide, and raider who stalks both the historical record and literary and mythic landscapes. He is the centerpiece of a deferred but by no means abandoned special project of Frontier Partisans. The … [Read more...] about The Ranger Archetype
In A Frontier Landscape…
This is ... intriguing... A parable of Frontier Partisan warfare and revenge, set in an unnamed country, clearly in the early decades of the 20th Century.... Without Blood is based on an Italian novella, directed by Angelina Jolie, and stars Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir. Per the Toronto Film Festival: In a frontier landscape at the … [Read more...] about In A Frontier Landscape…
Working The Trapline — Mine Wars, Mighty Muskets, True Believer, Rumors Of War
We’re getting a glimpse from Paramount of Season 2 of The Terminal List, set for release on Amazon on October 21. The season is built on the second book in the James Reece series, True Believer — one that I particularly enjoyed, not least because Reece spends some time on a game reserve in Mozambique with the Old Rhodesian Hastings family. … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Mine Wars, Mighty Muskets, True Believer, Rumors Of War
Britain’s Hard Man — Banastre Tarleton At War
Two British officers earned especially dark reputations during the American War of Independence. Thayendanegea — Joseph Brant — the Mohawk War Captain earned the name Monster Brant through his role in the brutal, bloody raids that devastated the Mohawk Valley and pushed the frontier back nearly to the Hudson River. In fact, Brant was far from … [Read more...] about Britain’s Hard Man — Banastre Tarleton At War
The Sullivan Expedition
The fourth episode in the Frontier Partisans Podcast series on The American Revolution on the Frontier is up. You can listen to it here or on Spotify and most other podcast platforms. This episode covers the Sullivan Expedition of 1779, when General George Washington carved off four brigades of the Continental Army to form a punitive expedition … [Read more...] about The Sullivan Expedition
A Firefight In The Woods
One of the most intense episodes during the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 occurred when a reconnaissance patrol of 27 men led by Lt. Thomas Boyd of the Rifle Corps engaged in a woodland firefight with a substantial force of Loyalist Rangers and Iroquois warriors deployed in an attempt to ambush the American advance toward the Seneca town of Genesse … [Read more...] about A Firefight In The Woods
Working The Trapline – An Iconic Rifle; Pirate Shanties; The First Mountain Man
If you’ve been waiting and wondering when you could get yourself the Canadian Rangers’ TK3 Arctic Rifle, wonder no more. You can get it in the States through Beretta. Cost you $2,259 plews though... Maybe when we secure that Urca de Lima gold, eh? * Nice segue into the piratical, eh? The reboot of the Assassins Creed: Black Flag game … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline – An Iconic Rifle; Pirate Shanties; The First Mountain Man
The Way Of The Gun
Way back in the days when internet forums were social media, I haunted the Robert E. Howard Forums like they were a Stygian tomb. My engagement there led to a blogging gig at The Cimmerian (hat tip to Deuce Richardson), which in turn led to launching Frontier Partisans. One forum thread asked us barbarians what martial arts we pursued. I said that … [Read more...] about The Way Of The Gun
Working The Trapline — On the Trek; Dark Horses; Counterinsurgency
An age of madness dawning... I don’t know when this will be available for streaming in the USA, but I sure will be keeping my eye on the horizon. The Trek is billed as a a Western/Horror/Psychological Thriller set in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa in the mid-19th Century. A group of 1846 settlers crossing the Kalahari desert descend into … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — On the Trek; Dark Horses; Counterinsurgency
