Manuel Pérez-Sanjulián Clemente — known to the world as the artist Sanjulián has died at 85. Sanjulián was a giant in the world of fantasy and horror illustration — he had a masterful touch in evoking the macabre and uncanny. His Western and frontier-oriented art is less well-known, but no less potent. As I noted in a 2019 post, Sanjulián’s West … [Read more...] about The Passing Of Sanjulián

Deploy the tomahawks! The second season of The Terminal List — based on True Believer — will drop in a week. They just released a featurette on the effort to make the story feel authentic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktjcXtOfCPE And a clip... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7pjX2Bnlh0 * Bryan Burrough is in the midst of the … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Pirate Lore, Rangers Of The North & Terminal Authenticity

This makes me happy... Frontier Partisan readers know that Dave Alvin is  a musical hero of mine. Due to work and other obligations, Clan Cornelius could not make it over the hill to catch his Portland show this time around, but we salute one of the all-time greats of Americana. And we’ll just roll on with the folk music... * True Crime … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Folk Music; Boogerman; Death On The Rock; Time-Travel To The 18th Century

Former Green Beret and MMA fighter Tim Kennedy has reportedly been badly wounded in a firefight in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The controversial fighter appears to have been contracting with Erik Prince’s Vectus Global. Vectus partners with governments, international organizations, and private-sector leaders to help them solve some … [Read more...] about Ambush In the Heart Of Darkness

I rate Laurence Burrows’ War on the Turtle’s Back as an essential text on woodland warfare in the 18th Century. Author Laurence Burrows has another title forthcoming from military history publisher Helion & Co., delving back further in time to a world-shaking series of conflicts in the northeastern woodlands. I’ll be snapping this one up as … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Beaver Wars, Blood Trails, Sicario, Zulu War Myths & Hurdy Gurdy

Flintlock Operator stormed Kings Mountain on the 246th anniversary of that critical battle. In a manner of speaking, at least. This is a POV run-and-gun video that puts us in the moccasins or brogans of an Over-Mountain Man taking on Major Patrick Ferguson’s Loyalist troops in the Carolina backcountry... What would it have looked—and felt—like … [Read more...] about Flintlock Operator Storms Kings Mountain

Guest post by Rick Schwertfeger Frontier Partisans Southern Command, Austin, Texas The Pikunis still lived close to their historic, natural state in the lands south of the Medicine Line and east of the Backbone of the World. In the 1860s into the 1870s theirs was a traditional, complex society of smaller, related groups in a confederacy - the … [Read more...] about Fools Crow: Blackfoot Life & Resistance On The Western Frontier

We are a little over a month from publication of a volume that will be a mandatory “get” for every Frontier Partisan’s library. Patrick O’Donnell, author of the fantastic The Unvanquished about Civil War scouts and partisans, is taking on a cadre of warfighters who are foundational to the Frontier Partisans mythos. Library Journal just gave his … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Revolutionary Snipers, A Hot Violinist, Sleepy Hollow, King Solomon’s Mines, Central Asian Spaghetti Western

Synchronicity or the Almighty Algorithm — really both — seemed bent on beckoning me to the Scottish Highlands. Perhaps it was the fine Scottish weather we got for a couple of weeks in September... First there came a teaser for what looks to be a sumptuous depiction of a deer hunt in the … [Read more...] about The Highland Call