The newest episode of The Frontier Partisans Podcast featuring the weird and wild tale of filibuster William Walker is up. You can access it here or on Spotify or on most other podcasting platforms. Walker was a strange man, and it’s hard to understand what drove him to truly crazy schemes to carve off a personal empire in Mexico or Central … [Read more...] about The Grey-Eyed Man Of Destiny
A Dark Wind Blows
My mother loved Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee mysteries. Wish she could have seen the upcoming series Dark Winds, which drops on AMC and AMC+ in June. Here’s the caper, from Deadline: The series, set in 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley, follows Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police as he is … [Read more...] about A Dark Wind Blows
Dahomey Amazons
In a post a couple of weeks back on diversity and representation, I inveighed against a phony diversity sought by simply sticking people of different ethnicities into standard-fare, oft-told European and American tales. Far better to go farther afield for history and folklore. I cried out: Give us Dahomey Amazons! Well, that’s happening. … [Read more...] about Dahomey Amazons
Casting Call For Sitting Bull
Larissa Mair Casting & Associates has put out a casting call for Lakota-speaking talent for a History Channel miniseries on Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull is four-hour special event miniseries that will depict the life of the revered Lakota leader as it has never been seen on television – from within his world looking out. With dialogue scenes … [Read more...] about Casting Call For Sitting Bull
The Old Gods Of Appalachia
Just cut the trail of the horror fiction podcast The Old Gods of Appalachia. Turns out that when you raise over $1 million for a role-playing game based on your anthology podcast, it leaves spoor across the internet. Here’s the caper: In the mountains of central Appalachia, blood runs as deep as these hollers and just as dark. Since before our … [Read more...] about The Old Gods Of Appalachia
Filibusters Of The Caribbean
It’s small but highly motivated force that has set sail for the shores of Cuba, determined to overthrow tyranny and bring the blessings of republican government and economic prosperity. Intel leads them to believe that they will be welcomed as liberators, that their arrival will, in fact, ignite a revolution that is already smoldering in the Cuban … [Read more...] about Filibusters Of The Caribbean
Conan Of The Blackfeet
I didn’t tell anybody, but in my head, in secret, I was Conan. Like him, my people were from the cold and brutal North. I was just drifting through Texas to hop a few walls, steal a few jewels, maybe fight a giant spider or two. — Stephen Graham Jones. Blackfeet. College professor. Writer of horror fiction. I know many a yarn-spinner whose … [Read more...] about Conan Of The Blackfeet
Sounds From The North
In Season 1, Ep. 12 of Outlander, Jamie Fraser brings his newly wedded wife Claire to his ancestral estate at Lallybroch in the Scottish Highlands. The couple sits in the Laird’s Bedchamber, Brian Fraser’s inner sanctum, a place that Jamie scarcely could bring himself to tip-toe into. Except to hold his father’s ancient Viking sword. Jamie finds … [Read more...] about Sounds From The North
Working The Trapline — Outer Range & A Safari Legend
This here Outer Range really intrigues me. Second trailer — more weird stuff. Drops April 15 on the East India Co. Channel Amazon Prime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o326YAuEtDU “It took a very simple, straight-forward genre and then it took extraordinary twists, whether it be metaphysical or whatever you want to call it,” [Josh] Brolin told … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Outer Range & A Safari Legend
A Salute To A Giant
He was the real thing, not an arm chair historian of which we have too many. — Lynda Sanchez on Dan L. Thrapp We’ve had a bit of commentary on the Return to Apacheria post that needs to be kicked up in a post of its own. Because it involves Dan L. Thrapp, a giant of Frontier Partisan history. Anybody who has done any … [Read more...] about A Salute To A Giant
