John Boessenecker is one of the Frontier Partisan authors whose books I snap up as soon as they hit the shelves at the trading post. HIs latest work takes on the tale of Pearl Hart. Arrives November 8. On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disguised as a man, held up a stagecoach in Arizona and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A … [Read more...] about Rounding Up A Wildcat

I told you that there would be some news from the traditional combatives front. Well, here it is. Bob Sabet, who keeps the Rough And Tumble Society page on Facebook, has published a book built around the story of Grey Otter — Skeeter Vaughan — who thrilled a young Frontier Partisan with his feats of knife-and-tomahawk-throwing in the long ago in … [Read more...] about ‘The Otter And His Hawk’

Musta been a column I received from a freelancer exploring other experience of a white woman in Sisters whose Black daughter experienced racist bullying in school a few years back. Maybe it was waking up to extreme heat and unhealthy air quality that reminds me of the old homeland... I got to thinking this morning about something that occurred … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline In Americanaland

“If a guy wants to name his cock ‘Macho,’ it’s OK by me...” — Mike Milo * Clint Eastwood has at least one more in him — and I’ll be there for Cry Macho in September when it hits theaters and streams on HBO MAX. You all know by now that this kind of contemporary-Western borderland tale is in the X-ring of the Frontier Partisans mythos. The … [Read more...] about Cry Macho

The Frontier Partisans mythos is built on history, folklore and pulp. Separating the one from the other in frontier history is an almost impossible task, since the frontier was being mythologized and exploited for entertainment value even as its history played out. Some of the greatest fun to be had in this field is found in picking up all three … [Read more...] about ‘The West’s Wildest Hell-Raiser’ — Men’s Adventure Quarterly

My brother John did not plant the seed for my lifelong obsession with the frontier — I guess I brought that into this world with me. But he sure nurtured the sapling. He took me to my first movie — Jeremiah Johnson. He introduced me to the mighty tales of Robert E. Howard. He gave me his well-read copy of The Frontiersmen, and I literally read the … [Read more...] about Frontier Arrakis

I wish my mother could have seen this. She LOVED Tony Hillerman’s mysteries; they brought her escape from a pretty tough set of circumstances into an immersive world that resonated her, as it apparently did with millions of others... From The Hollywood Reporter: AMC has greenlit an ambitious new crime drama based on a beloved book series and … [Read more...] about Dark Winds Blow

An Arctic wind blew across my desk this morning, in the midst of our long, hot Central Oregon summer. Somehow, The North Water, the novel and a new miniseries, had escaped my notice. Now, here it is — everywhere. And don’t it look like one helluva harrowing frontier tale? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8VZKyHIg70 Here’s the caper via … [Read more...] about Venturing Into The North Water

Our own Frontier Partisans contributor Paul McNamee has committed authorship again. Much anthologized, Paul’s work has now turned to a standalone novel. The Captain of the New England Ranging Company has tapped his love for pulpy goodness to produce Hour of the Robot. Here’s the caper: From their nerve center penthouse lair, the Robot supports … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Pulpy Goodness

By Paul McNamee — Captain, Frontier Partisans New England Ranging Company Once again, I find myself south of the border. In this case, trudging into the Central American jungle in search of the “Lost City of the Monkey God,” a.k.a. “Cuidad Blanca”— the White City. Douglas Preston, who is probably more famous for his fiction co-writes with … [Read more...] about Run Through The Jungle