Frontier Partisans

The Adventurers, Rangers and Scouts Who Fought the Battles of Empire

Working The Trapline — Revolution In Carolina, A Pirate & The Last Of Us

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The estimable Gold & Gunpowder channel has produced a profile of an undersung pioneer of the Pirate Republic of Nassau — Benjamin Hornigold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhqDYhTEbtQ Hornigold is portrayed as a primary antagonist of Captain Flint in my beloved Black Sails. This is based on the historical fact that Hornigold was pushed … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Revolution In Carolina, A Pirate & The Last Of Us

Working The Trapline — Triple 7, Celtic Christmas & Notes For Badass Santa

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This is so damn cool... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuiEEP7PSS4 Legacy Expeditions, a veteran-owned extreme expedition company, is raising awareness and inspiring action to support the Folds of Honor Foundation through their upcoming global expedition, Triple 7, in January 2023. The seven-day, record-breaking skydiving adventure includes … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Triple 7, Celtic Christmas & Notes For Badass Santa

Rangers & Raiders

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Lash up your snowshoes, my fellow Frontier Partisans. This next podcast series is going to take us down a long trail in an operation that is going to last all winter. It started with an impulse to track the trail of Benjamin Church, who is often billed as “America’s First Ranger,” because of the way he conducted operations with native forces to … [Read more...] about Rangers & Raiders

Cocaine Bear

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Some months ago, I posted on the remarkable tale of Pablo Escobear, the poor critter that ingested 70 pounds of cocaine that was dumped out of a drug runner’s plane near the Georgia-Tennessee line. This you-can’t-make-this-shit-up episode tied together some of my favorite things, to include Waylon Jennings and Justified. I’d forgotten that a … [Read more...] about Cocaine Bear

Working The Trapline — 1923; Epic Frontier Music & A Fauda

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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 … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — 1923; Epic Frontier Music & A Fauda

Thunder…

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Fellow Frontier Partisan Chas Clifton has posted on the passing of Thomas McIntyre. McIntyre was an exceptional outdoor writer, hunting writer... hell, just a fine writer, period. I was gobsmacked when he started corresponding with me through Frontier Partisans, and even more astonished and delighted when he honored me with a request for a blurb … [Read more...] about Thunder…

Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — Sleigh Gun

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The season’s upon us. Soon, Badass Santa will climb into his sleigh and soar into the night sky on his magical mission to bring trade goods to the world. Surely, Badass Santa is packing a Sleigh Gun. Oh, yes, there is such a thing — a large-bore muzzleloader cut down to the perfect size to manage in a sleigh. Here’s a collection of Swedish … [Read more...] about Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — Sleigh Gun

Peeling The Potatoes

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Clan Cornelius is full of “themers,” which is a slightly more glamorous term for “nerd.” As you have seen on these pages, virtually everything we do somehow gets spun up into the context of some song or story. Take mashed potatoes, for example. My role in the preparation of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner is limited to wielding the sharp … [Read more...] about Peeling The Potatoes