Frontier Partisans

The Adventurers, Rangers and Scouts Who Fought the Battles of Empire

Smokin’ Wimmin Smokin’

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Recently stumbled across a couple of True West Magazine pieces on the artist Ron Lesser, who is best known in Western circles for his iconic movie poster for the dark Clint Eastwood movie High Plains Drifter. Lesser is a well-known artist for paperback novels and movie posters, with a flair for Western iconography. He has a series of paintings … [Read more...] about Smokin’ Wimmin Smokin’

Cosmic, Mythic, Mystical Rock Art Of The Lower Pecos Peoples In The Texas-Mexico Borderlands

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By Rick Schwertfeger, Captain, Frontier Partisans Southern Command Austin, Texas, May 2018 The trail begins down a gentle slope. You’re walking easily, strolling. After a quarter mile the footing gets tougher, with looser rock. The trail descends more sharply. You’re picking your way down unstable rocks, stepping very carefully. Steeper, … [Read more...] about Cosmic, Mythic, Mystical Rock Art Of The Lower Pecos Peoples In The Texas-Mexico Borderlands

Myth & History

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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...] about Myth & History

The Dog’s Life Of A Frontier Partisan

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By Lane Batot, Scout, Frontier Partisans, North Carolina Sector I It’s hard for me to know just where to begin on this subject — SO MANY potential discussions, including actual historical Frontier Dogs, beloved fictional Frontier Dogs (in both books and movies), what makes for an ideal Frontier Dog (and lots of various angles there!), and … [Read more...] about The Dog’s Life Of A Frontier Partisan

‘Trophy’

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A lot of people love animals. A lot of people hate trophy hunting. I get it. I really do. For many people, the idea of paying thousands of dollars to kill a magnificent African animal, then pose beside it, is grotesque, immoral — sick even. It’s a completely understandable emotional response. It’s also wrong. Hunting is vital to the survival … [Read more...] about ‘Trophy’

Lend A Pard A Hand…

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We’ve all been there a time or two: The Blackfeet steal your horses and leave you afoot out on the starveling prairie; a hippo overturns your dugout and dumps your whole outfit to the bottom of the Zambezi River… Our pard Eccentric Cowboy has fallen upon some hard times and needs a hand. He ain’t asking for a handout though: He’s got trade goods … [Read more...] about Lend A Pard A Hand…

Cowboys Of Kazakhstan

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Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys Don’t let ’em pick guitars or drive them old trucks Make ’em be doctors and lawyers and such… It’s an international lament. From the outback of Nevada to the Argentine Pampas to Kazakhstan. I know at least one man who faced the freedom-vs.-having-a-pot-to-piss-in dilemma. It’s real. From … [Read more...] about Cowboys Of Kazakhstan