Tim Truman, artist, musician and creator of the forthcoming Scout: Marauder scouted this out: Native women across North America are disproportionately vulnerable to violence. According to the US-based Indian Law Resource Center, “One in three Native women will be raped in their lifetime, and three in five will be physically assaulted. Native women … [Read more...]
Fair Chase
By Rick Schwertfeger, Captain, Frontier Partisans Southern Command, Austin, Texas “The grace of God won’t carry a man through these prairies. It takes powder and ball.” — Jim Bridger “All who came west brought ample powder and shot…for hunger was a constant and keeping one’s larder full a daily preoccupation. Danger was integral to … [Read more...]
Hillbilly Highways
Ace scout Deuce Richardson sent up a smoke signal Saturday morning, alerting me to a new writer stalking the forest trails and desert traces of the Frontier Partisans wildlands. He is a kinsman, I know, though I have yet to learn his name. This backcountry (and beyond) still was fired up just this month. It’s called Hillbilly Highways: Country … [Read more...]
Nude Queen Of The Communist Cannibals!
Like the Steve Earle song says, I’m looking for a woman. I know she’s out there — ageless and deathless, an ever-present peril to be faced down by good, old-fashioned red-blood American manhood. Yes, I’m talking about the Nude Queen of the Communist Cannibals! See, this is the danger of stalking down the mysterious jungle paths of the … [Read more...]
Persistent Frontiers
Prospecting in the rich gold fields of South African (and Mexican history), I stumbled over a fine historical nugget. I know, the pairing sounds odd, but there are more connections than you might think, running from about the 1880s on up through the Mexican Revolution. The mining frontier that ran down the Rocky Mountains into Mexico also spread … [Read more...]
His Name Is Mud
Fortune pissed upon our traditional Mother’s Day plans, which for the past six years or so have included a trip out to Belknap Hot Springs on the McKenzie River. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we were required to adapt and overcome, which we did with a nice stroll along a river and some mighty tasty experiments in international cuisine (I … [Read more...]
‘Memo From Turner’
Apparently, my plans are set for the first weekend in August. On August 2, a new novel from Tim Willocks drops. Willocks is one of a handful of writers whose novels get read the second they come out — or before. These men are kin: Cormac McCarthy; James Carlos Blake; Willocks; Don Winslow. No matter what their setting, they are tale-tellers of … [Read more...]
‘In Blood Stepped In So Far’
There’s a book beckoning me from the shelves of Paulina Springs Books. Its cover image hit me right in the noirs, and the title made me do a double-take. Yep, that’s what it says alright: MACBETH. The Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbo has recast The Scottish Play as a contemporary crime novel, set in a rainy, Scottish industrial city that is not … [Read more...]
Myth & History
Storytelling and the intersection of “Myth” and “History” have been much on my mind of late. I place those loaded words in quotation marks because they are not as straightforward and easy to pin down as we might tend to think. Considering History, as Napoleon had it, “a set of lies that people have agreed upon” is too harsh, but it remains that … [Read more...]
Digging Up The Cellar
By Paul McNamee Captain, Frontier Partisans New England Ranging Company In the consciousness of the general public, if Robert E. Howard is remembered at all, he is remembered as the creator of Conan (the Barbarian). In the past two decades — give or take a few years — Howard scholars and fans have worked hard to bring much more of his … [Read more...]
