We have a trailer for Yellowstone: 1923 — and it packs a punch. As you all know, my frontier interests range widely, both temporally and geographically, but my home range is the late period around the turn of the century and into the first couple of decades of the 20th Century.
Part of that is the material culture — the era had an aesthetic that trips my trigger, as it were. Part of it is the collision of “old ways” with galloping modernity. And there are just some great stories to be had here, as Samuel K. Dolan’s histories of the Southwest border in the period illustrate.
I’m intrigued about how Africa figures in.
Anyway, here it is. You know where I’ll be starting December 18…
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Fauda, Season 4, is hitting Netflix on January 20. This Israeli drama is a Frontier Partisans favorite. Intense and propulsive, and unflinching in depicting consequences to violence. Fauda (Arabic for ‘Chaos’) focuses on an undercover special operations unit in the Israeli Defense Forces. If you haven’t delved in, it’s worthy.
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Given that it’s Thanksgiving season, and I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading in the field for the King Philip’s War podcast, it is interesting to delve into the highly developed agricultural system developed by the native peoples in the the Eastern Woodlands of North America. Agriculture there at contact was far more sophisticated than history has usually depicted, and it was primarily the province of women, who carried a deep store of knowledge and expertise.
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Ran across a soundtrack for a cinematic concept album for “a story that doesn’t exist yet,” from LA-based composer Greg Dombrowski. I like it…
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This is wonderful. And lookit that hall, will ye… That’s proper home decor.
Matthew says
Listen to some of Frontier. That’s good music. It really gets you in the guts.
It does not surprise me that Indian agriculture was more sophisticated than some thought. Things tend to be more sophisticated than people think. Many “primitive” cultures were more complex than it’s thought.
Joe says
Looking forward to learning more about the native agriculture of the eastern tribes. I know a fair bit about the Black Hawk farming techniques and the types of produce and systems used along the Mississippi Valley, so it should be fun to compare similarities and differences.
Also, definitely interested in the Africa scenes they teased in 1923 as well. Honestly, the variety they are showing so far looks fantastic. They have solid actors and production values. So fingers crossed there’s a great story tying it all together.