I feel like I’m poaching in Christopher Othen’s territory. I claim justification: It was Othen who put Frontier Partisans moccasins on the trail that led to the wild and wooly world of Cold Warrior Mitchell WerBell III. Here’s the caper: Reader Brian H. reported going down a rabbit hole after reading the FP post on Othen’s new book, The Men From … [Read more...] about The SCIONICS Man
Working the Trapline — Dangerous Territories
The feast of Frontier Partisans content continues. Mark Lee Gardner, who has turned in a solid collection of Western frontier history touching on the lives and legends of Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and Theodore Roosevelt, has a new dual biography coming out on Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. I will inevitably measure any such book … [Read more...] about Working the Trapline — Dangerous Territories
Working The Trapline — Old Men & Texas Rangers
Gotta love it when a greybeard gets to be an action hero. You know what Gus McCrae said: “The older the violin, the sweeter the music.” The context was slightly different, but roll with it. As a feller with plenty of grey in the beard, but one determined to stay in fighting trim, I am giving a big Oh, HELL yes! to Jeff Bridges in the forthcoming … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Old Men & Texas Rangers
Prey
Getting the first look at the forthcoming sci-fi/horror film Prey, which is part of the Predator universe first entered by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987. (Strange to hit Arnold twice in a week...) In this yarn, the very first visit of the extraterrestrial predator to Earth brings on a confrontation with a young Comanche girl. Drops on Hulu … [Read more...] about Prey
Working The Trapline — A Secret Mission & Waterfalls
Lady Marilyn and I conducted a lightning raid across the mountains Thursday night — part of a secret mission conducted on behalf of Frontier Partisans. More, I cannot say... yet. Conditions were more adventurous than one expects in the middle of May. Snowstorm across Santiam Pass and down the west side of the Cascades to Marion Forks. … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — A Secret Mission & Waterfalls
A Barbarian Looks At 40
Conan the Barbarian premiered in North America this day in history, May 14, 1982. The milestone has led to a tranche of retrospectives popping up in the haunted ruins of civilization that I regularly explore, and I am moved to add my own. I was 16 in 1982, coming to the end of my junior year in high school. And I was an ardent reader of the … [Read more...] about A Barbarian Looks At 40
Born To Be Hanged
Ye know I can never resist a buccaneer tale. Thus this tome is making its way to me through the library. If it’s as good as it’s purported to be, It’ll find its way onto the shelves of the captain’s cabin. The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life … [Read more...] about Born To Be Hanged
Frontier Partisan Firearms — The Guns Of Outlander
Lady Marilyn and I finally watched the Season 6 finale of Outlander Sunday night. What can I say? It’s been BUSY ’round here! The season ended with a bang — multiple bangs, actually — as our heroes were caught in a firefight defending hearth and home from a quasi-legal potential lynch mob out to punish Claire for a purported murder. No spoilers … [Read more...] about Frontier Partisan Firearms — The Guns Of Outlander
A Salute To James Bama
“In a violent and often irrational world perhaps my paintings can bring a moment of pleasure – of values that can be understood by many people and even rub off on a few aspiring artists. What more can I ask for or expect to attain in my own lifetime? After that, my fate and reputation will be in the hands of curators, collectors, dealers, critics … [Read more...] about A Salute To James Bama
‘That Damned Cowboy!’
“Now we’ve got that damned cowboy as President!” — Senator Mark Hanna upon learning that President William McKinley’s had died from an assassin’s gunshot in September 1901 and that Theodore Roosevelt was now President of the United States * The Frontier Partisan President gets the History Channel prestige documentary treatment over … [Read more...] about ‘That Damned Cowboy!’
