Mi compadre Lynn Woodward has insisted that we break out my original Song of the .44 this summer. The song recounts the short life and violent death of Billy the Kid. I wrote it years ago, late one night after watching The Godfather for the umpteenth time. I’d been reading Robert Utley’s Kid bio, and realized that the Lincoln County War was just a … [Read more...] about Ah, Poor Billy…

Tom Jeff Eley scouted up a piece from the John Rigby & Co. Campfire that he well knew would, well... trip my trigger. It is well-known that I am smitten with Rigby rifles, for their historical value, their aesthetic, and their legendary function. We were planning to visit the Rigby showroom in London on our COVID-aborted trip there in 2020. … [Read more...] about The Essence Of Perfection

* The Frontier Partisan Muse has sent me back out onto the Great Plains and into the Shining Mountains, in a blinding flare of synchronicity. I’ll explain that in more detail in a later post. Some cool stuff... I was actually headed back to Africa (and I’ll get there; the country north of the Limpopo River is calling), but I knew I had to take … [Read more...] about Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — Philip Creamer, Gunsmith

By Greg Walker (ret) Editor’s note: It would be hard to overstate how thrilled I am to publish a knife article from my friend Greg Walker. I discovered Greg’s knife writings when I was a frontier history-obsessed teenager. I was fascinated with knives as tools and weapons of the frontiersmen, and this Special Forces soldier was writing right in my … [Read more...] about San Francisco Steel – The Legendary Knife Lore of Michael Price Knives

The first episode of The Frontier Partisans Podcast is up an on the trail. It’s a 20-minute exploration of the culture that borned Kit Carson: The Scots-Irish were a frontier people. Hailing from the contested borderlands of England and Scotland, they migrated in the 17th Century to Ulster (Northern Ireland); and many then moved on to the … [Read more...] about Podcast Episode 1 — Kit Carson’s People

I’m a revolver man. My EDC pistol is a slick-sided, striker-fired, light-weight, high-capacity polymer-framed 9mm semi-automatic for all the reasons that it should be. But if I’m carrying a belt gun out in the woods, it’s the S&W 686 stoked with six 158 grain .357 Magnum loads. Or if I want to do a little stump shooting, it’s the little … [Read more...] about ‘A Gun To Ride The River With’ — The Cult Of The Revolver

The Trading Post is operational at Frontier Partisans. Look to your right. There it is. A (VERY) limited number of Warriors of the Wildlands; a rogues gallery poster; morale patches; three of Jim's songs recorded by the Anvil Blasters — and the first-ever, limited edition Frontier Partisanship t-shirt. My guitar-slingin’ buddy Mike Biggers … [Read more...] about Frontier Partisans Plunder!

The past couple of days, the Muse has thrown music in my path that brightens the day. Like a lot of folks, I run on music as fuel; it’s as vital as a bracing cup of coffee in the morning. Things are kind of dark in the world of music these days. Independent venues are under existential threat. My outfit just finished the last of three gigs we … [Read more...] about The Bunkhouse Sessions

Thanks to many generous contributors, we’re right about halfway to the $3,000 goal for the Frontier Partisans GoFundMe Campaign (link to the right). My pard Lynn Woodward is hard at work on getting the Trading Post swept out, running off the loafers, getting the chinking between the logs filled in and the plunder organized. I am still nailing … [Read more...] about Frontier Partisans Situation Report