Frontier Partisans

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

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

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

Way up north Way up north North to AlaskaWe’re goin’ north, the rush is onNorth to AlaskaWe’re goin’ north, the rush is on — Johnny Horton / Mike Phillips / Tillman Franks * They called it the Last Frontier — and Alaska drew frontiersmen like a magnet. Gold was discovered in the Klondike in 1896, and the rush was on... the last of the great gold … [Read more...] about North To Alaska

It’s release day for The Deerslayer by Aspen Ridge (Hawken Horse). You know what to do... I’ll be listening to this all day at work and — unless I am smoked out — this will be the soundtrack for Wednesday’s Frontier Partisans Biathlon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05wOYJxLlc&list=RDK05wOYJxLlc&start_radio=1 * Jim Corbett is … [Read more...] about Working the Trapline — Deerslayer; Jungle Stories; Tiger Stripe; Stealth Camping & A Revolution

It has come down in history as “The Wyoming Massacre,” but what happened in a beautiful corner of northeast Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778, was a battle — a fight between American militia forces and Loyalist/Iroquois partisans on a deep-penetration raid to break up Pennsylvania and Jersey settlements and hit at the Continental Army’s source of food … [Read more...] about Battle Of Wyoming Podcast

Guest post By Matthew Ilseman It is not a surprise that Robert E. Howard, being from Texas, wrote Westerns. Of all the states in the union, Texas is the one most identified with the Wild West. Texans also identify with the Wild West. Perhaps more than they should… While Howard was (along with Tolkien) one of the pillars of modern fantasy, wrote … [Read more...] about The Western Stories of Robert E. Howard

The final trailer for Lioness Season 3 has dropped and, by Crom!, it looks like a billion bucks. This may actually fill the Strike Back-shaped hole in my heart. Season 2 really upped the game, and this one looks like it has solid production values, and has ratcheted up the stakes. Premiers August … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — A Cold War Adventure; Lioness Roars; Outbreak-To-Anarchy

It was a classic Frontier Partisan tactical maneuver — and it won a battle of great strategic significance. History has never given proper due to the Frontier Partisan Ranger who made it happen... Warriors of the Shawnee, Delaware, and Mingo, along with a contingent from the Great Lakes, had ambushed a column marching toward Fort Pitt at the … [Read more...] about Barrett’s Rangers At Bushy Run