The event of the season... Thanks to Monk for scouting up a palaver between two titans of frontier Highlander storytelling: The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona will present on Thursday, March 2 John Sayles in conversation with Diana Gabaldon Sayles’ novel, Jamie MacGillveray: The Renegade’s Journey, drops on February 28. I may … [Read more...] about A Tale Of Two Jamies
Working The Trapline — Montana Mayhem; Scottish Slaughter
February is bringing the mayhem. Sunday night marks the return of Season 1 of 1923, and we can expect the conflict at the Yellowstone to reach a crescendo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7qhwVzpAzc * “‘You are hereby ordered to fall upon the Rebells, the McDonalds of Glenco, and putt all to the sword under Seventy.’” The YouTube Channel … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Montana Mayhem; Scottish Slaughter
Rangers & Wardens
My friend Deuce Richardson shanghaied me into this here blogging trade many years ago, with an invitation to write for the award-winning Robert E. Howard site The Cimmerian. These days, he’s working with DMR Books, which publishes fantasy, horror, and adventure fiction in the traditions of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, and … [Read more...] about Rangers & Wardens
A Storyteller Makes His Final Journey
Historical novelist of the frontier, James Alexander Thom, has gone up the trail. Thom was 89, and left a legacy of some 15 novels of frontier America behind. The novel Long Knife, which recounted George Rogers Clark’s epic Illinois Campaign in the American Revolution (and Clark’s sad decline into penury and alcoholism) hit me like a rifle ball … [Read more...] about A Storyteller Makes His Final Journey
Working The Trapline — Baptized & Buried On The Terminal List
Sharpen up your tomahawks, Frontier Partisans. Jack Carr’s The Terminal List is getting a second season. From Deadline: The Terminal List is continuing — and becoming a franchise for Amazon Studios. I have learned that Prime Video has finalized a Season 2 renewal for the hit series starring and executive produced by Chris Pratt, and also has … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Baptized & Buried On The Terminal List
Chasing Horse Bust
You can run on for a long time... Nathan Chasing Horse got run off the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana back in 2015 after the tribal council alleged that the purported Lakota spiritual leader engaged in human trafficking, drug dealing, spiritual abuse and intimidation of tribal members. Chasing Horse, best known for his role as Smiles A Lot … [Read more...] about Chasing Horse Bust
Working the Trapline — Bayou, Bullet Garden & Big Ponderoo
My amigos at the Sisters Folk Festival have launched a brand new event, set for June: This is a stacked lineup. As you can imagine, I am beyond stoked that Corb Lund is coming to town. Hot damn! Hoping maybe we can get a campfire like this one going — in warmer conditions. Any Frontier Partisans out there up for a … [Read more...] about Working the Trapline — Bayou, Bullet Garden & Big Ponderoo
Warriors Of The Dawn
Here’s a bit of synchronicity. Just in time for the release of Part III of The Frontier Partisans Podcast on King Philip’s War — The War Spreads. Atun-Shei Films produced what turns out to be an excellent companion piece for the episode, as the Nipmuc jump into the fray and lash the Massachusetts Bay Colony furiously. Ambush tactics play hell with … [Read more...] about Warriors Of The Dawn
Working The Trapline — Rangers, Romance & The Return Of Fauda
Ever since Ian Tyson died, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Romance of the West. Ol’ Eon was a romantic to the core. Oh, he was intimately familiar with the harsh realities of the West — “dumb stuff like chores when it’s 20 below,” and the like — but he was deeply and permanently besotted with the landscape and a passing way of life. Sample … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Rangers, Romance & The Return Of Fauda
Working The Trapline — An Iconic Winchester; Life & Death Struggles
Hat tip to Floyd Leithauser for scouting up this piece of news: Winchester has released a commemorative edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the iconic .40-40 lever action Model 1873 “The Gun that Won the West.” 150 years ago, the revered Winchester Model 1873 began its historic run. Similar to the earlier Model 1866 "Yellow Boy," the '73 … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — An Iconic Winchester; Life & Death Struggles
