The Metolius River near my home in Sisters, Oregon, rises from a small spring. It is fed by other springs and tributary creeks and with a couple of miles becomes a glorious, rushing river. H. Rider Haggard embodies the headwaters of men’s adventure fiction. From his pen flowed a mighty river of genre fiction of many shades and colors, an his … [Read more...] about The Wellspring Of Men’s Adventure Fiction

Frontier Partisans reader and patron Bob Deis is doing noble work in keeping alive the spirit of the glorious pulpy goodness of Men’s Adventure magazines and paperback novels — and preserving the legacy of the outstanding artists who brought virile men and sexy women in dire danger to life in the 20th Century. MENSPULPMAGS.ORG — The Men’s Adventure … [Read more...] about Pulpy Goodness — Wild, Wild Westerns

Well, I didn’t make it to the theater for Young Washington. I had some time constraints — including a cool Frontier Partisans-related thing that I can’t talk about yet, which had a tight turnaround. That was a priority, along with work demands and obligations on one of Sisters’ biggest event weekends. Truth is though, if I had really wanted to get … [Read more...] about Thoughts On An Unseen ‘Young Washington’

“We would rather die in these ditches than surrender ourselves to a post-literate society.” — William Barrett Travis, The Alamo, 1836 * OK, so that’s not exactly what Travis said, but he would have if he wrote for Texas Monthly. That’s my legend, and I’m sticking to it. As the editor in chief of a small community weekly newspaper, I get … [Read more...] about Read Or Die!

If you enjoy the Continuity & Persistence of frontier tales set in a contemporary setting, this summer has a lot of cinematic juice for you. Lady Marilyn is going to be riveted to the screen for Heart of the Beast. No, not because of Brad Pitt. The dog, people. It’s always about the dog. I can hear her now... “If anything happens to … [Read more...] about Frontier Partisan Cinema — Rez Police, A Man And His Dog & Lioness

Guest post by Matthew Ilseman I remember a few years ago watching a news report about how many young men were obsessively thinking and talking about the Fall of the Roman Empire online and how it might relate to what was going at the time. I remember coming to the realization that I spent more time thinking about the rise of the Mongolian Empire … [Read more...] about Tales of Empire

If you run across a tale spun by a total enigma of an author — who may not actually exist — a tale steeped in borderland noir, exploring some of the darkest aspects of American history, evoking what one critic calls “political despair,” and you say to yourself, “Man, I want some of THAT!” ... well, you’re in the right place, ain’t … [Read more...] about Western Noir & Political Despair

Guest post by Matthew Ilseman Back in the 1950s there was one comic that rose above the rest. That set a standard for quality often attempted but rarely achieved. Its innovations in art and story put not only above the comics of the time but also of today. That comic was Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Which we are not talking about today since it … [Read more...] about American Weirdness — Space Western Comics

Reader Dog River scouted up news of a forthcoming thriller titled Wild Game. Per Variety: Adapted by Hall from the best-selling novel of the same name by Frank Bergon and based on true events, Wild Game follows Fish and Game officer Jack Irigaray who joins a routine poacher arrest in the Black Rock Desert. But a deadly encounter with renegade … [Read more...] about Claude Dallas Thriller?