You may have noticed that many of the Latin American fighters depicted in my Cowboy Revolutionaries post a few days ago wield Remington Rolling Block Rifles. To refresh your memory — the feller on the right is armed with a Remington.   The Remington Rolling Block Rifle doesn’t get as much attention as its sexy sister, the Sharps, but … [Read more...]

Amazon’s magic algorithms decided I would like Larry Sweazy’s Texas Ranger novels — which may be so. The Cougar’s Prey kicked up on my Kindle, but the thought it triggered wasn’t “Buy that!” It was, “Damn! That bandito stole the Death Dealer’s horse!” Seems like a mighty risky proposition to me, but a stout sawed-off double-barreled … [Read more...]

I bought my first Gurkha Ghost Cigar for the Frontier Partisans history. I bought the second and the third and the... because I like the smoke. A lot. It’s stuff that works. Of course I was drawn to the Gurkha. These badass highland Nepalese warriors have been recruited into the British Army since the early 19th Century. Their magnificent … [Read more...]

Want to pull up a piece of blanket by the campfire and hear stories from a real-deal buckaroo and Western artist? Link up to the Running Iron Report Podcast No. 1. Craig Rullman and I could not have done better for an inaugural podcast than to spend an hour with the likes of Len Babb. He’s an authentic example of a way of life that is harder and … [Read more...]

Longtime readers of Frontier Partisans know that Tom Russell is a giant in my pantheon of storytellers. His music has been the soundtrack for many an adventure down dusty desert roads and mountain trails, and he’s a key influence on my own songwriting and music. I learned to fingerpick because he said I should — and just as he promised, it opened … [Read more...]

Rick Schwertfeger keeps tormenting me with erotica from John Rigby & Co.’s launch of their Highland Stalker rifle. It’s doubtless a bit of cold-served revenge for my nagging him to purchase a CZ Mannlicher .22. Note for the record that I am leading him into the temptation of spending around $500. The rifle he’s dangling in front of me runs a … [Read more...]

By Paul McNamee, Captain, Frontier Partisans New England Ranging Company My wife and I have a long running joke/tradition: We never go on vacation without buying a new sweatshirt. It’s not that sweatshirts are our favorite form of souvenir. It’s that we invariably under-pack and find ourselves a bit chilled. One year, on our annual Maine beach … [Read more...]

Mariano Medina was a tough hombre. My first knowledge of this Mexican Mountain Man came from the book Crow Killer, which is a highly unreliable compendium of fact and legend about John “Liver-Eatin”” Johnson. That book is such a tangled mess of fact/fiction/folklore that it’s impossible to know what’s authentic. Was Mariano a deadly friend of … [Read more...]

Ever since Utilikilt hit the scene in Seattle back in the early 2000s, I’ve wanted a “utility kilt.” Yeah, the phenomenon was kind of a hipster thing, but I didn’t care. I thought the concept was fantastic, badass and, well, utilitarian. But the damn things were priced way beyond what I was willing to pay. The market has since worked its magic — … [Read more...]