Well, we made it through the crisis point with the Akawa Butte Fire. It was very touch-and-go and fast-and-furious on Wednesday afternoon. The fire — now over 26,000 acres — made dangerous runs, driven by erratic winds in the approach of a thunderstorm, throwing up flame lengths of 100-200 feet. A pyrocumulonimbus cloud built over the fire, … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Foglord, Bushfighters, Pirate Colony & Paradise Prison
Fire Update
Well, my fellow Frontier Partisans, we’ve got us a battle on our hands here in Sisters, Oregon. The Akawa Butte Fire I posted on a couple of days ago is now a massive, out-of-control 19,000+ acre inferno. It grew 6,000 acres overnight last night. Many folks are evacuated, including one friend whose house is right in the pathway of this thing … [Read more...] about Fire Update
The Wellspring Of Men’s Adventure Fiction
The Metolius River near my home in Sisters, Oregon, rises from a small spring. It is fed by other springs and tributary creeks and with a couple of miles becomes a glorious, rushing river. H. Rider Haggard embodies the headwaters of men’s adventure fiction. From his pen flowed a mighty river of genre fiction of many shades and colors, an his … [Read more...] about The Wellspring Of Men’s Adventure Fiction
Pulpy Goodness — Wild, Wild Westerns
Frontier Partisans reader and patron Bob Deis is doing noble work in keeping alive the spirit of the glorious pulpy goodness of Men’s Adventure magazines and paperback novels — and preserving the legacy of the outstanding artists who brought virile men and sexy women in dire danger to life in the 20th Century. MENSPULPMAGS.ORG — The Men’s Adventure … [Read more...] about Pulpy Goodness — Wild, Wild Westerns
Drone Swarms, Battle Dogs & Dragon Fire
We had a robust lightning storm roll through last Wednesday, and now a good chunk of Oregon is burning. Again. There’s dragon fire on our horizon, about 10 miles to the north of us, in much the same general area as last summer’s Flat Fire, which was a major incident that took half a dozen homes and forced hundreds to evacuate. * A trailer … [Read more...] about Drone Swarms, Battle Dogs & Dragon Fire
Lewis Wetzel Hatfield
FP reader Cooter Brown kicked up a piece of Frontier Partisans trivia that was unknown to me — one that goes to the touchstone of Continuity & Persistence. Ellison Hatfield, whose death really kicked off the infamous Hatfield & McCoy Feud in West Virginia/Kentucky in the 1880s, named a son after West Virginia’s most famous/infamous … [Read more...] about Lewis Wetzel Hatfield
A German Partisan In The American War
We Americans tend to think of Hessian mercenaries hired to fight on behalf of King George III in the American War of Independence as automaton auxiliaries in odd brass miter caps with funny upturned mustaches. They are usually considered a brutal blunt instrument rented by the Crown to hammer the rebellious colonials. Troops were the primary … [Read more...] about A German Partisan In The American War
A Scout Rifle & A Return To Africa
A buddy of mine is parting with a mighty fine Springfield M1A Scout, chambered .308 Win. Six 20 round mags, two 10-round mags and a cleaning kit. Fitted with a Leupold Mark IV and quick-release sling. He is asking $2,500. If interested, shoot me an email at FrontierPartisan@gmail.com and I’ll connect you. If you know someone besides yourself who … [Read more...] about A Scout Rifle & A Return To Africa
Thoughts On An Unseen ‘Young Washington’
Well, I didn’t make it to the theater for Young Washington. I had some time constraints — including a cool Frontier Partisans-related thing that I can’t talk about yet, which had a tight turnaround. That was a priority, along with work demands and obligations on one of Sisters’ biggest event weekends. Truth is though, if I had really wanted to get … [Read more...] about Thoughts On An Unseen ‘Young Washington’
Ranch Rifle
So... Lady Marilyn and I were belatedly finishing up the last two episodes of My Cowboy Soap Opera II Dutton Ranch when a scene played out with two 10 Petal cowboys confronting each other over just what exactly the big ranch in Rio Poloma, Texas, is up to (Spoiler: It ain’t no good). I exclaimed, “Hey, those are Ruger Mini14 Ranch Rifles!” … [Read more...] about Ranch Rifle
