Frontier Partisans

By Rick Schwertfeger, Captain, Frontier Partisans Southern Command, Austin, Texas “To the rear of the Whitley’s bomb bay lay a large metal tube, packed full of weaponry: 2 Stens, 14 Lugers, 640 rounds of ammo and 20 commando fighting knives – arms for Operation Grouse. The prospect of combat didn’t discomfit Einar Skinnarland greatly. But right … [Read more...] about They Did Nothing Less Than Save The World

The NRA’s American Rifleman this month contains a wonderful piece on the gunsmithing operation at Colonial Williamsburg. You can read it online here. I think of the classic long rifle as the American Ulfbehrt — and hold the makers of such weapons in the same esteem the Norsemen held the swordsmiths of yore. Which is to say, I am convinced … [Read more...] about Barrel From The Bar, Stock From The Tree

Things we love at Frontier Partisans: Forests, mountains and deserts; a good story; a good rifle; good music. Mostly, that means country music. No, HELL no! Not that packaged dreck on the radio — I’m talkin’ the real deal. The 100-proof stuff that is getting the Ken Burns treatment. Country Music will chronicle the history of a uniquely … [Read more...] about A ‘Wonderful Parade Of Sons And Daughters Of America’

Charles-Michael Mouet de Langlade was an all-time badass Frontier Partisan. When the simmering tensions between France and Great Britain erupted into the epic French & Indian War in 1754, he would prove himself to be France’s finest wilderness warrior, dueling with the legendary Rogers Rangers in the Lake George region and fighting in the … [Read more...] about Pickawillany Horror Story — Part II — Memeskia Goes Into The Pot

The Fur Trade was a deadly serious business. Interrogate the shade of Memeskia on that score. The Miami village leader led a rebellion against French commercial interests in the Ohio Country in the mid-18th Century, and, like some upstart who gets crossways with the Sinaloa Cartel, he paid for it in the most gruesome fashion. The hit on Memeskia … [Read more...] about Pickawillany Horror Story — Part I — Memeskia’s Rebellion

Netflix is killing it out there, running through the jungle and down the lost highway. Here are three upcoming Netflix Original movies that are on target for Frontier Partisans: The Highwaymen (March 2019), with Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner, tells the tale of the takedown of Bonnie and Clyde. Costner plays Frank Hamer, one of the all-time … [Read more...] about Lawmen, The Lawless, And The Law Of The Jungle

I grew up in a small coal-mining town in Pennsylvania where Belsnickle visited my second grade class. It was just before Christmas in the late 1950s. My classmates and I got very quiet when a white-bearded man strode into our classroom. His face was nearly hidden under a furry hunter’s cap. Candy canes and twigs bulged from the pockets of his long, … [Read more...] about Belsnickle — The Old, Weird Christmas