Frontier Partisans

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Jim Cornelius has posted another roundup of Frontier Partisanal news bytes, looking forward to movies, documentaries etc:


frontierpartisans.com/12596/working-the-trapline-february-2018/




For instance, this incredible triptych of the Conquest of Mexico was carved with a chainsaw.

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A Line in the Sand

For days they ringed us with their flame,
For days their swarming soldiers came,
The battle wrack was gory.
We perished in the smoke and flame,
To give the world their traitor shame,
And our undying glory.

~ Robert E. Howard ~


A good article on the "Line in the Sand" legend:


eltexian.blogspot.com/2017/02/once-upon-time-in-texas-line-in-sand.html

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Good, short post on the mighty American bison:


westernfictioneers.blogspot.com/2018/02/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know.html

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Frontier Partisans looks at women on the American frontier, especially the remarkable Mad Anne Bailey:


frontierpartisans.com/12785/frontier-women/

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An FP tribute to the Irish railroad and canal workers who built the transportation networks around the world in the 1800s:


frontierpartisans.com/6533/rise-up-and-be-strong/

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The ebook of A Splendid Savage is $1.99 at Amazon:


www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YYT9ATU/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_eb_QQvSAbF277PMM


Frederick Russell Burnham was one of the premier military scouts of all time. Here's the cover blurb:


Frederick Russell Burnham’s (1861–1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world-famous as “the American scout.” His expertise in woodcraft, learned from frontiersmen and Indians, helped inspire another friend, Robert Baden-Powell, to found the Boy Scouts. His adventures encompassed Apache wars and range feuds, booms and busts in mining camps around the globe, explorations in remote regions of Africa, and death-defying military feats that brought him renown and high honors. His skills led to his unusual appointment, as an American, to be Chief of Scouts for the British during the Boer War, where his daring exploits earned him the Distinguished Service Order from King Edward VII.


Here's the review by Jim Cornelius:

A well-researched, highly readable life of one of the most remarkable frontiersmen of the late 19th-early 20th Century. Kemper does a nice job of fleshing out Burnham's involvement in the Tonto Basin Feud, also known as the Pleasant Valley War. Burnham's own memoir is maddeningly vague in the details and it looks like Kemper's account, while still full of dark spaces and unresolved questions, is about as good as we're going to get.

Kemper squarely takes on the controversies surrounding Burnham's part in The Shangani Patrol in the First Matabele War of 1893 and the targeted killing of the M'limo (a shaman) in the second war in 1896. His assessment of various accounts is judicious and his conclusions fair and, I believe, right in the x-ring.

Anyone with interest in frontier history, outdoor adventure and/or the origins of special operations warfare will find this book a great read by the wood stove — and an excellent addition to their library.


A cool little anecdote from another reviewer:


35 years ago I asked the screen writer John Milius if he’d considered telling Burnham’s story on film. His response, “nobody would believe it.” Kemper’s A Splendid Savage reminds me of the truth of John’s words.

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A great article on the history of cavalry and Brigadier-General J.E.B. Seely in particular:


www.thedailybeast.com/the-warrior-horse-the-soldier-general-and-the-last-honest-war?ref=home

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The SAS, post-WWII, hunting down Nazis:


frontierpartisans.com/13099/murder-in-the-mountains/

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Cool clip on frontier flintlocks:

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Jim Cornelius works the trapline for June 2018:


frontierpartisans.com/13222/trapline-june/


Plenty of cool stuff on the horizon.

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Hesketh "Hex" Prichard was one of the great frontier partisans who bridged the Victorian era and World War I. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern school of sniping:


frontierpartisans.com/1406/the-dean-of-snipers/


Prichard was a published author, getting his first fiction published in his teens. He also attempted to track down what was believed to be relict survivals of the extinct(?) giant ground sloth in South America. An exemplary model of the sort of explorer/hunter/author/soldier that the British Empire seemed to produce as a matter of course in that era.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesketh_Hesketh-Prichard

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A great podcast featuring Western artist (and legend in the buckaroo community), Len Babb:


runningironreport.com/featured-guests/running-iron-report-podcast-number-one-len-babb/

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The Remington Rolling Block Rifle was ubiquitous in North/Central America from the 1860s into the 20th century...especially South of the Border:



frontierpartisans.com/13348/remington-rolling-block/

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I've recently picked up a new laptop and can thankfully access a few websites that I had problems with before -  that includes Frontier Partisans.

Looking through Frontier Partisans I noticed that Dennis Banks, one of the founders of American Indian Movement died in October last year. RIP.

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Jun 28, 2018 13:42:41 GMT -5 @hunnu said:

I've recently picked up a new laptop and can thankfully access a few websites that I had problems with before -  that includes Frontier Partisans.

Looking through Frontier Partisans I noticed that Dennis Banks, one of the founders of American Indian Movement died in October last year. RIP.

Banks was one-of-a-kind. Glad you found the campfire!  

Here's a great post on a fine book:


frontierpartisans.com/13386/fair-chase/