Explorations of borderlands and frontiers in history and folklore.
For those of you trying to chase down Into The Wild Frontier, Season 2 has recently posted on Youtube. I provided commentary on Episode 4 on Jim Clyman’s epic 600- mile survival trek in which he kept his scalp but lost his hair, and on Episode 6, depicting Kit Carson’s duel with the French bully...
The latest Tales of the Rangers podcast is up — this one detailing the captivity of John Stark at the hands of the Abenaki in 1752.
Venturing out onto yet another frontier — the one where history and folklore overlap.
Thing is, my Wettlerlings is as good a hatchet as you can get, so if I get a new ’hawk it really doesn’t need to fill the tool function.
I’ve wanted to throw an axe — or a ’hawk — at more than one office party in the past, but people threaten to call the cops.
The double-barreled fuzee would have been a versatile weapon in the forest warfare of the 1750s.
Frontier trapper, Ranger and top-tier Revolutionary War combat leader....
With leadership qualities and tactical brilliance developed and honed on the New England Frontier with Rogers Rangers John Stark was a Revolutionary War hero and an All-American Badass.
There’s still plenty of time to sign on with the Neal Fargo brigade. The crowdfunding campaign for Howard Chaykin’s Fargo: Hell on Wheels is underway...
It’s important right now to celebrate the beauty of old ways, and Jarod’s piece captures the passion Hank brings to the Sport of Kings.
Autumn is my favorite time of year. The Spooky Season (I refuse to confine the haints to Halloween) and Thanksgiving are just the best.
Lo, and behold, yesterday, as I rode into the woods to burn powder, I took in a discourse on this very subject — from the mythic realm.
Hamas is an apocalyptic Islamist movement, pouring out its hate in an o**y of slaughter that no civilized person can endorse, excuse or accept.
The experience of women during the Revolutionary War, especially in the backcountry, is something worthy of more exploration, and I’m tempted by this book.
Behind my office chair at The Nugget is a large poster portrait of Emiliano Zapata. He’s there because I admire him.
Simon Kenton and Capt. Sam Brady would have made damned fine Jedburghs, so they would.
You won’t find a more wild and dangerous border affair than that of Mimi Webb Miller and Pablo Acosta Villarreal in the 1980s.
Maysville can claim Simon Kenton like no other spot in Kentucky. The spot is where he entered Kentucky from the Ohio River, and it was here that he established Kenton’s Station in 1784.
July 31, 1763, The Battle of Bloody Run. Rogers Rangers, Pontiac’s War. 100-proof Frontier Partisans history. Get you some...
Pontiac’s forces besiege Fort Detroit. Treachery and bloody firefights and ambushes ensue. The war that would shape the North American frontier is underway in earnest. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by...
This skinny, bespectacled Brooklyn kid ended up doing some real-deal fighting, and when he returned to America he published a memoir, Fighting the Turk in the Balkans, which I am damn sure going to have to run down.
Doug Hall’s recent painting depicting the return of Indian raiders from the capture of Ruddle’s and Martin’s stations sent me down a sidetrail to trace the story of the hard blow the British and native forces struck on the Kentucky frontier in the summer of 1780.
One hundred years ago today...
In 1920, after a decade of revolutionary struggle, Pancho Villa surrendered. He retired to the hacienda of Canutillo in Durango, Mexico, with a bodyguard of his faithful Dorados. For three years, he lived a peaceful life. That life came to an end on July 20, 1923, when a hit squad shot up his 1919 D...
When Victoriano Huerta staged a coup and murdered President Francisco Madero in February 1913, Pancho Villa crossed the border with eight men, bent on revenge. Within weeks, he had built a powerful army that would storm down the rail lines and sweep Huerta from power. Support The Frontier Partisans....
Pancho Villa was a human tempest born of lightning and thunder.
Wills was gracious enough to take the time to answer a few questions from Frontier Partisans.
“He was a great woodsman and a mighty hunter — one of the best marksmen I ever saw shoulder a rifle. He was an excellent soldier; and no man among us understood better than he did how to fight the Indians...”
In the summer of 1676, Metacomet fled south from central Massachusetts, back to his homeland in Rhode Island’s Mount Hope Peninsula. Captain Benjamin Church, sidelined by wounds, got back into the fight, leading a contingent of native warriors and English soldiers in a strategic manhunt that would...
What is predictable is preventable, but only if we understand what has gone before. We must remember.
The latest episode is out.
As the spring 1676 campaign season gets underway, the Puritan settlements of New England are reeling — but the fundamental weaknesses of the native insurgency are starting to show. Source material: Flintlock & Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War, by Douglas Edward Leach. Despite a clear b...
The Nipmuc jump into the fray and lash the Massachusetts Bay Colony furiously. Ambush tactics play hell with the colonial militias through the summer and fall of 1675, and settlements up and down the Connecticut River are attacked, abandoned and destroyed. For further reading: “Flintlock & Tomahaw...
The Ranging Way of War is woven into the fabric of American military culture, and Rogers Rangers is the foundation stone of that tradition...
In this episode, the primed musket of conflict finally goes off, with devastating impact on the Plymouth Colony community of Swansea. The episode lays out the strategic and tactical advantages and disadvantages held by the Wampanoag and Puritan settler combatants, and describes the way a conflict that might have been contained escaped that containment and became a widening and extremely destructive war across New England.
The Boats of Glen Carrig is ultimately a combination of the sea adventure and horror genres and is definitely entertaining.
Whether John Grey could be fairly deemed “turbulent” and a “black-guard” and a “damned rascal,” there is no doubt that he was a 100-proof badass.
Let's All Help The Cowboys Sing the Blues... helping cowboys — and cowboy singers — get laid since 1975...
What I want is impossible, as I’ve told you before; I want, in a word, the frontier...
https://frontierpartisans.com/27246/indigenous-continent/
Hämäläinen is among the historians for whom I just carve out time, whether I have it or not. His work is right in the x-ring of Frontier Partisans.
https://frontierpartisans.com/27118/the-line-riders/
This is one of the most fascinating times and places in all of Frontier Partisan history — which means I’ll be jumping on Samuel K. Dolan’s new one as soon as Paulina Springs can smuggle it out to me.
As the world marks the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, it is worth noting that she was in the company of one of the greatest Frontier Partisan hunter-heroes when she became Queen.
Beard understood the Frontiersman’s Paradox in his bones — Beard himself embodied reckless prodigality, with his savage appetite for dangerous adventure, sensation, and the carnal knowledge of beautiful women.
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