Working The Trapline — Borderland Dispatches, Tomahawks, Dark Wolf & Tales Of The Dark West

If you thought I could pass on by a set of Tales of the Dark West from a self-described “California cowgirl” well… you never did think that did you? Of course not.

Sam Stoane has just released her debut album — Americana/folk/country/western — whatever you call it, it hits where the music is supposed to hit.

 

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Mi amigo Craig Rullman hit upon something that needs to be shared here at Frontier Partisans. We have been engaged in a rolling conversation on how a man best navigates the very strange days that are upon us.

“It’s all the frontier now. The frontier collapsed in on itself and now it’s everywhere.”

The actionable piece that comes out of that is this: We are everywhere in hostile or potentially hostile terrain, and institutions are not to be relied upon. Keep your powder dry and mind your top-knot.

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The Deerskin Diary offers a treatise on the American tomahawk…

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Katarina Szulc (pronounced like Schultz) is a rising star in borderlands journalism. She is a Canadian freelance journalist based in Mexico. She is doing brave, dangerous work, that has been highlighted on many episodes of Ironclad’s Borderland and Borderland: Narcosis with Rocco Vargas. Now she’s getting her own show — Borderland: Dispatches.

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The Terminal List prequel Dark Wolf has a release date: August 27.

The prequel explains how James Reece’s comrade-in-arms Ben Edwards went down a dark path that led to his betrayal of Reece, which played out in the gut-wrenching climax of The Terminal List.

Jack Carr, author of the source material, has freely and frequently acknowledged that the TV series and actor Taylor Kitsch did a better job with the characterization of Ben Edwards than he did in his debut novel. So much so that the betrayal hit harder, and audiences wanted more of the character — and to understand how he got to where he ended up. Hence, a prequel series titled Dark Wolf.

Per USA Today:

Dark Wolf revisits Reece and Edwards training troops in Iraq, along with Earnest “Boozer” Vickers (former SEAL Jared Shaw), a Terminal List casualty. In the prequel, wildcard Edwards is discharged from the SEALs after an operation, and his coveted trident insignia is removed from his uniform.

“One split-second decision changed the course of his life,” says Kitsch. “You’re not only stripping the bird off his chest, you’re stripping away a piece of who this guy is and his purpose.”

It’s just the beginning. Edwards heads to Europe with departing SEAL Raife Hastings (Tom Hopper), and the duo become entangled in the shadowy world of CIA Special Operations and a lethally explosive spy conspiracy.