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
Working The Trapline — Made Like That
Captain Rick Schwertfeger has been a busy scout these past few days, running from Lake George down to Florida. Good thing he’s an endurance athlete... He kicked up a documentary in the works on one of the great set-pieces of Frontier Partisan history — the Siege of Fort William Henry. Yes, THAT siege, the one in The Last of the Mohicans. From … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Made Like That
The Good Wife
“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse — and a good wife.” — Daniel Boone Can’t argue with a Frontier Partisan authority of the stature of Daniel Boone. He was in a position to know, after all, having put Rebecca Boone through the trials and tribulations of separation (Boone put the long in long hunter), multiple … [Read more...] about The Good Wife
Run Through The Jungle
By Paul McNamee — Captain, Frontier Partisans New England Ranging Company Once again, I find myself south of the border. In this case, trudging into the Central American jungle in search of the “Lost City of the Monkey God,” a.k.a. “Cuidad Blanca”— the White City. Douglas Preston, who is probably more famous for his fiction co-writes with … [Read more...] about Run Through The Jungle
Pulp On The Range
Paul McNamee scouted up this upcoming release from Netflix. The Harder They Fall is clearly going for maximum pulp — and the characters name-check a bunch of historical figures taken wildly out of context. “When outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) discovers that his enemy Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) is being released from prison he rounds up his gang to … [Read more...] about Pulp On The Range
‘Dead For A Dollar’
Walter Hill is saddling up for another Western, set on the Mexican borderlands in 1897. I’m in, of course. Hill is our kinda people. He is a frontier storyteller. He directed The Long Riders and Geronimo: An American Legend. He long ago copped to the fact that everything he does is a Western, regardless of its “official” genre. A couple of years … [Read more...] about ‘Dead For A Dollar’
Buccaneers, Barbacoa, Boers & Biltong
I am an unapologetic meat eater. My family noted my alarmingly prodigious carnivorous instincts and appetites from a very early age. I would have happily lived on a Plains Indian or Mountain Man diet comprised almost exclusively of meat — by preference buffalo. This being Father’s Day, Marilyn is planning to grill a steak in celebration. Which … [Read more...] about Buccaneers, Barbacoa, Boers & Biltong
Mr. Big Is Full Of Holes
Somebody ventilated a rhino-poaching kingpin in South Africa. No one is shedding any tears, but it appears to be a criminal hit, so... From Sowetan Live: Alleged rhino poaching kingpin Sydney Petros Mabuza was gunned down in Hazyview, Mpumalanga, on Thursday afternoon. His car, a Ford Ranger, was found riddled with 17 bullet holes. Mabuza, … [Read more...] about Mr. Big Is Full Of Holes
Working The Trapline — Traveling Obsidian And Podcast Update
This is so damn cool: From Ancient Origins: A team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the University of Michigan found something highly unusual while exploring the underwater realms of Lake Huron in the Great Lakes region. Supervised by their team leader, anthropologist John O’Shea, they were digging on the Alpena-Amberley Ridge, a … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Traveling Obsidian And Podcast Update
Juneteenth
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday, June 15, unanimously passed a resolution establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. As far as I’m concerned this is a no-brainer. The emancipation of Black slaves, proclaimed in 1863 and finally enforced everywhere in U.S. … [Read more...] about Juneteenth
