Frontier Partisans

The first episode of a multi-part series on the Highland Scots is up. You can access it here at Podbean, on Spotify, and on Google Podcasts. We’ll follow the trail from the wilds of the Highlands in the 17th and 18th Century to the wilds of North America during the years of the Fur Trade. Stoke the fire, pour yourself a wee dram and listen to the … [Read more...] about New Podcast — The Highland Scots — A Frontier People

Taylor Sheridan continues his roll. He’s the creator of the surprise massive hit Yellowstone — which I unabashedly describe as my Cowboy Soap Opera. Now he’s taking the Dutton family saga back to the roots — and giving me a reason to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday. From Variety Magazine: A “Yellowstone” prequel series is set at Paramount Plus … [Read more...] about Y: 1883 — Taylor Sheridan Goes 19th Century

Of late, I’ve gone down a bit of a sidetrail into the brambles of the Stuart Dynasty of Scotland and England. In part, the journey is a product of reading for The Frontier Partisans Podcast. The last attempt to restore the Stuarts in 1745 led to the destruction if the Highland Clans. I’m also doing a lot of reading and pondering on revolution and … [Read more...] about The Angel Of Hadley

Craig Rullman scouted up a delightful documentary on “the pinnacle of virile self-expression” — The Cowboy Hat Movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDuj8pT0FSo Lots of history and the visuals are wonderful. If you’re a hat person, you’ll love it. If you’re not, well... you’ll love it anyway. And maybe you’ll go get something on your … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — February 2021

Kris Kristofferson has announced that he’s hanging up his spurs, retiring from making music. Here’s a tip of the hat to a songwriter who brought the poetic sensibility of a lover of William Blake to country music. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Kristofferson produced a run of songs that will surely be immortal. Like many of my heroes, he walked … [Read more...] about To Beat The Devil

By Rick Schwertfeger, Captain Frontier Partisans Southern Command, Austin, Texas Most of us had been in enough murky war zones to lack the near-religious faith in democracy that the war was sold on. And no one thought that somehow, in some bunker, we’d find those weapons of mass destruction. That would have given purpose and meaning to the … [Read more...] about The Battles Of Empire Today

Not sure how I missed this when it released in October, but I’m gonna catch up now. The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man’s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the … [Read more...] about From Canada To Africa To New Zealand

This is the third and final installment of Greg Walker’s series debunking the “savior myth” surrounding the brother of the brutal SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Reinhard Heydrich Assassinated Second in the SS only to Heinrich Himmler and one of the senior architects of the Final Solution and Holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich became a Nazi … [Read more...] about A Grave Lost to Time — Burying the Savior Myth of SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Heinz Heydrich — Part III

Hit the woods on a bluebird day after a big wind-and-rain storm — a woods ramble and one of the best Frontier Partisan Biathlon sessions I’ve ever turned in. Exhilarating... except... it was in the 50s in the middle of January. We’ve had maybe a total of three inches of snow at our elevation. I heard the sounds of Corb … [Read more...] about More From The Trapline — January 2021

By Greg Walker Two Brothers Reinhard Heydrich (left) and his younger brother, Heinz (right), grew up in an educated household. Both were musically gifted with Reinhard becoming an exceptional violinist and Heinz a gifted musician playing the cello. In later years both would be invited to play in a quartet hosted by Admiral Wilhelm Franz … [Read more...] about Two Brothers — Burying the Savior Myth of SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Heinz Heydrich — Part II