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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Cool People Who Did Cool StuffPart Two: Nonhelema: The Six Foot Six Warrior Woman of the Shawnee Who Fought the EmpireMargaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle. Sources: https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokolesqua/ https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-44554-4 https://sundownohio.substack.com/p/the-gnadenhutten-massacre https://newreligiousmovements.org/b/bohemian-adamites/ https://www.reformedhistory.com/Content/Confessions/ArticlesOfPrague https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/22/naked-truth-about-seventies-streaking-craze https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iph4ag/why_did_the_czech_lands_remain...
2025-11-2648 minCool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Cool People Who Did Cool StuffPart One: Nonhelema: The Six Foot Six Warrior Woman of the Shawnee Who Fought the EmpireMargaret talks to Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle Sources: https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokolesqua/ https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-44554-4 https://sundownohio.substack.com/p/the-gnadenhutten-massacre https://newreligiousmovements.org/b/bohemian-adamites/ https://www.reformedhistory.com/Content/Confessions/ArticlesOfPrague https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/22/naked-truth-about-seventies-streaking-craze https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iph4ag/why_did_the_czech_lands_remain_catholic_rather/
2025-11-2450 minTurning Tides
Turning TidesTurning Tides: Puebloan Peoples: La Entrada, 1301 - 1600: Episode 3Turning Tides: Puebloan Peoples will discuss the original inhabitants of the American Southwest and their contributions to modern-day architecture and art. The third episode, La Entrada, will cover the period from 1301 to 1600, in which European arrival upends the Puebloan peoples' way of life, and Oñate y Salazar founds the colony of Nueva México.If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!Produced by Me...
2025-04-0144 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 61 — Warren Angus Ferris — Man of the Mountain LandWarren Angus Ferris spent six years as a Mountain Man — and left behind a vivid account of his days in the Rocky Mountains. Further reading: Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado, 1830-1835 Land is the Cry!: Warren Angus Ferris, Pioneer Texas Surveyor and Founder of Dallas County — Susanne Starling https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Man of the Mountain Land by Hawken Horse Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2025-02-081h 02The Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 60 — Tales of the Rangers — Part X — The Mier ExpeditionIn 1842, Texans staged a punitive expedition down to the Rio Grande, in retaliation for a Mexican incursion into San Antonio. Things went badly. Very badly. Further reading: Soldiers of Misfortune: The Somerville and Mier Expeditions, by Sam W. Haynes Intro music: Dead Man Walking, Justin LaPoint, Uppbeat https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2024-11-2627 minSouth Carolina Spookshow
South Carolina SpookshowEp. 27: Jonathan R. Davis, The Ghost of Edingston Beach, & "Coffin Island"Jonathan R. Davis: A man who became a folk hero, a vigilante, and an enigma. Davis’ story is one of grit, gunfights, and survival against incredible odds. Today, history and mystery collide as we dive into the legend of one of South Carolina’s most infamous prospectors and the time he fought off a group of bandits with a couple of pistols and a bowie knife. Also, we’ll head to the misty shores of Folly Beach, where the waves aren’t the only things that haunt this coastal paradise. And finally, I’ll read a chapter from the book Haunte...
2024-10-0221 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 59 — Tales of the Rangers — Part IX — Bigfoot & ConanIn 1932, Robert E. Howard created his most enduring and popular character — Conan the Cimmerian. Part of Conan’s DNA came from the legendary Texas Ranger Bigfoot Wallace. This episode explores that connection:  Further reading: Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard On An Underwood No. 5 — Bigfoot vs. Bigfoot: Biggest Bout of the 19th century! Or…The Four Deaths of Chief Bigfoot by Ben Friberg Beyond the Black River — Is It Really Beyond the Brazos River, Part 1 by John Bullard Part 2 Part 3   Texas Indian Fighters — AJ Sowell Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podca...
2024-08-1631 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 58 — Tales of the Rangers Part VIII — Captain McNelly and the Las Cuevas WarCaptain Leander H. McNelly and 26 Texas Rangers crossed the Rio Grande to recover a herd of stolen cattle in November of 1875. They were defying the odds — and international law. McNelly had a mission, and he was willing to risk his own life, the lives of his Rangers, and war with Mexico to accomplish it. Further reading: Texas Seizes Large Sanctuary Island in Campaign Against Cartels Taming the Nueces Strip, by George Durham Follow Me To Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice, by Tom Clavin
2024-06-2427 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 57 — Tales of the Rangers Part VII — War on the Nueces StripLeander McNelly — a “puny” consumptive with exceptional drive and martial prowess — recruited 41 men to form a Special Force of Texas Rangers to take on rampant banditry in the Nueces Strip in South Texas in 1875. It was more a counterinsurgency mission than a law enforcement operation, and it would make him and his men Frontier Partisan legends.   Further reading: Taming the Nueces Strip, by George Durham Follow Me To Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice, by Tom Clavin https://thoughtsfromafar.blog/2018/08/26/the-red-raid-1875/ Support The Frontie...
2024-05-2527 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 56 — Tales of the Rangers, Part VI — The Road to Mexico CityIn 1847, General Winfield Scott landed an American Army at the port of Veracruz and pushed west to take Mexico City. The Texas Rangers under Col. John Coffee Hays were tasked with counter-guerrilla operations to keep the vital supply line between Veracruz and Mexico City open. Sources: Mixed Blessing: The Role of the Texas Rangers in the Mexican War, 1846-1848, Masters Thesis by Major Ian B. Lyles Cult of Glory: The Bold & Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug J. Swanson Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers...
2024-02-2327 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 55 — Tales of the Rangers, Part V — Ben McCullochBen McCulloch was a Tier 1 Frontier Partisan — a highly capable scout and spy, and an outstanding combat leader. He was also an ardent pro-slavery Southern patriot, who died in battle in service of the Confederate States of America. All that makes him... complicated... for folks in the 21st Century, but he’s a man who should be remembered. (Note: I know that there’s a weird repeat at the end. Couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it, and it doesn’t do any harm, so there it is, is, is). Sources: Ben McCulloch...
2024-01-2539 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 54 — Tales of the Rangers, Part IV — Mustang GrayMabry B. Gray — known to history and legend as Texas Ranger Mustang Gray — is the avatar of the dark side of the Ranging Way of War. If John Stark of Rogers Rangers represents the tough but honorable ideal of a Ranger, Mustang Gray represents the vicious, vengeful, natural-born killer element, giving rein to his darkest impulses in a deadly blood feud. Sources:  MIXED BLESSING: THE ROLE OF THE TEXAS RANGERS IN THE MEXICAN WAR, 1846-1848 A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the re...
2024-01-1620 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 53 — Tales of the Rangers, Part III — Tougher Than LeatherTougher than leather — that’s Cicero Rufus Perry. He started riding with the Texas Rangers in his teens, in the 1830s, when the new nation of Texas was locked in a two-front war with Mexicans along the border and Comanches to the west and north. He rode with many of the great men of that legendary Frontier Partisan force — Jack Hays, Ben McCulloch, Sam Walker. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2023-12-0113 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 52 — Tales of the Rangers, Part II — The Captivity of John StarkJohn Stark was a badass — a real-deal American hero, born and bred on the New England Frontier. He served as second-in-command of Rogers Rangers in the French and Indian War, led a frontier-bred contingent of New Hampshire militias to Boston, where they hammered the British Army with devastating volleys of accurate musket fire in the battle of Bunker Hill, and he beat a German contingent of the British Army in a standup fight at Bennington in the summer of 1777, setting up the key American victory at Saratoga. His gritty determination and his tactical acumen were on display early, when he...
2023-11-1516 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 51 — Tales of the Rangers — Lovewell’s FightThe first in the series Tales of the Rangers recounts a savage firefight between a party of New England rangers led by Captain John Lovewell, and Abenaki warriors led by their renowned war captain, Paugus, in the Maine woods on May 8 or May 9, 1725.  Sources: Lovewell’s Fight: War, Death and Memory in Borderland New England — Robert E. Cray The Maine Story: Lovewell’s Fight by Pat Higgins The White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, And Vengeance in Colonial America by Stephen Brumwell
2023-10-1531 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 50 — The Mexican Game of Thrones, Part VI — Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your KneesBehind my office chair at The Nugget is a large poster portrait of Emiliano Zapata. The Mexican Revolutionary’s hard eyes gaze out over the snowdrift of papers on my desk, his magnificent mustache bristling, haloed by his massive sombrero, a bandolier of cartridges across his chest. Most folks who come into my office don’t pay much attention to him; those who do often mistake him for Pancho Villa. Occasionally someone asks who he was and why he’s there. He’s there because I admire him. This episode is an introduction to the bold, tragic, and insp...
2023-08-2016 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 49 — The Mexican Game of Thrones, Part V — Pancho Villa’s Last RideIn 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 Dodge Roadster as he drove through the city of Parral. Head Games by Craig McDonald — mentioned in this episode — is a fantastic pulp caper novel based on the 100-percent true fact that somebody broke into Pancho Villa’s tomb in 1926 and stole his head. Orson Welles, Marlene Dietri...
2023-07-2022 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 48 — The Mexican Game of Thrones, Part IV — The Epic Fall of Pancho VillaIn December 1914, Pancho Villa and his Division del Norte were the mightiest force in Mexico. By the summer of 1915, the Division del Norte had been smashed and Villa was reduced to guerrilla warfare against his hated rival Venustiano Carranza — and against the United States.   Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2023-07-1832 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 47 — The Mexican Game of Thrones, Part III — The Rise of Pancho VillaWhen 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 Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2023-07-0836 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 46 — The Mexican Game of Thrones Part II — Pascual Orozco: Hero & TraitorPascual Orozco led Francisco Madero’s forces in the decisive 1911 victory at the Battle of Ciudad Juarez — a battle the vacillating Madero didn’t want to fight. The victory ensured the fall of the regime of Porfirio Diaz and the ascendency of Madero to the presidency of Mexico.   Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2023-07-0131 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 45 — The Mexican Game of Thrones Part I — The Coming of the RevolutionIn 1910, Porfirio Diaz turned 80 years old. He had ruled Mexico for three decades, and had modernized his country and centralized political power. But “progress” had come ate the expense of massive social discontent — and a storm was brewing that would sweep the Porfiriato away. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2023-06-0823 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 44 — King Philip’s War Part VII — Apocalypse 1676Wrapping up the Frontier Partisans Podcast Series on King Philip’s War, it is apparent that the war was a catastrophe for Puritan New England — and an apocalypse for the native peoples of southern New England. Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War is highly readable and worthy. Flintlock & Tomahawk by Douglas Leach remains a key history. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2023-04-2021 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 43 — King Philip’s War Part VI — Capt. Benjamin Church & The EndgameIn 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 end King Philip’s War. Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War is highly readable and worthy, and Osprey’s King Philip’s War, 1675-76: America’s Deadliest Colonial Conflict is useful. Flintlock & Tomahawk by Douglas Leach remains a key history. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog...
2023-04-0441 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 42 — King Philip’s War Part V — The Turning of the TideAs 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 bias toward the Puritan settlers’ POV, and the use of archaic and pejorative language that jars modern sensibilities, Leach’s work remains a foundational narrative history of the war. Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War is highly readable and worthy, and Osprey’s King Philip’s War, 1675-76...
2023-03-1528 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 41 — King Philip’s War — Part IV — The Great Swamp FightThe United Colonies attack a fortified Narragansett camp deep in a frozen swamp in Rhode Island, in a preemptive wintertime 1675 strike.  Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2023-02-1427 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 40 — King Philip’s War — Part III — The War SpreadsThe 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 & Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War, 1675-78,” by Douglas Edward Leach Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2023-01-2426 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 39 — King Philip’s War — Part II — First BloodThe primed musket of conflict finally goes off, with devastating impact on the Plymouth Colony community of Swansea. This 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 Red King’s Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England, 1675-1678,” by Russell Bourne “Entertaining Passages Relating to King Philip’s War, which began in the Year 1675, With the Proceedings of Benj Church, Esq.” ...
2023-01-0434 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 38 — King Philip’s War —  Part IWhen the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620, they found allies and partners in the Wampanoag people. For a generation that alliance was beneficial to both peoples. But by 1675, the partnership had broken down and the Wampanoag and the Plymouth settlers found themselves on teh brink of war. Works cited: So Dreadfull a Judgment: Puritan Responses to King Philip’s War, 1676–1677; Richard Slotkin, James K. Folsom, editors Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War — By Nathaniel Philbrick Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Musi...
2022-12-2825 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 37 — Once Upon A Time in Los Angeles, Part VI — Tiburcio Vasquez: A Corrido of Dust and DreamsTiburcio Vasquez was a rock star. He had everything that a bandit needs to become a folk hero. He was handsome and charismatic, a swashbuckler who carried an air of daring and danger — but he could plausibly claim that he’d never taken a life. He could — and did — claim to be a rebel fighting for the oppressed. The image doesn’t hold up to much scrutiny, but since when has that mattered? People wanted to believe it. Still do, in fact. The main source for this podcast episode is John Boessenecker’s magnificent biography “Bandido: The Life and Times...
2022-11-0935 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 36 — Once Upon A Time in Los Angeles, Part V — The Killing of Sheriff James BartonThe ambush slaying of Sheriff James R. Barton and three of his deputies in January of 1857 was the worst act of violence against law enforcement in Los Angeles history until the Newhall Incident of 1970, when four highway patrolmen were gunned down during a traffic stop north of the city. The Barton killing led to a massive manhunt and an orgy of savage vigilante violence. Here’s how it went down...   Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Gr...
2022-10-2229 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 35 — Once Upon A Time in Los Angeles, Part IV — A Tangled Web of VillainyThe story of the murder of cowboy and ranchero John Rains has all of the classic elements of LA Noir crime fiction — greed, dysfunctional families, foul murder and wild gunplay. Only this tale took place in the 1860s, when Los Angeles was a wild frontier town. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2022-09-0735 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 34 — Once Upon A Time in Los Angeles, Part III — Horse Stealin’The Spanish ranchos of Southern California bred some of the finest horses to be found in North America. this made them a target for freebooting Mountain Men and Indians, who raided the ranchos and drove off thousands of horses across the Mojave Desert to sell into the ravenous markets of the Southwest and Southern Rockies. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2022-08-1017 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 33 — Once Upon A Time In Los Angeles — Part II — The Lynching of David BrownIf anyone ever deserved hanging, it was David Brown. A scalphunter with the notorious Glanton Gang, David Brown survived the gang’s demise and continued his career of violent mayhem in 1850s Los Angeles. One murder too many put him at the end of a hangman’s rope. Here’s a link to a fine musical telling of Davy Brown’s story... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fOZ0GCb9b0 Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Corne...
2022-07-1531 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 32 — Once Upon A Time In Los Angles — Part I/IntroductionLos Angeles is steeped in real-deal frontier history — it’s just buried under acres of cement in what L.A. writer D.J. Waldie called “the landscape of amnesia.” So join me and let’s rip up some cement and rattle the bones of the Frontier Partisan history that lies beneath it.    Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2022-06-2323 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 31 — The Filibusters, Part III — The Jameson RaidThe Jameson Raid, which took place at the turn of the year 1895/96, in the Transvaal in Southern Africa, was one of the most spectacular military cock-ups of all time. The Raiders, who had the backing of the imperialist diamonds-and-gold magnate Cecil Rhodes, and the tacit support of British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, was supposed to be in support of a rising of aggrieved Uitlanders in the gold boomtown of Johannesburg, who were expected to fight for their civil rights. But the Rising fizzled, leaving the Raiders on their own hook. Boer Commandos surrounded and shot up Jameson’s column an...
2022-06-1136 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 30 — The Filibusters, Part II — A Dreamer of the DayWilliam Walker dreamed imperial dreams, and thousands would die amid the destruction his visions wrought in Mexico and Nicaragua. Including him. Ultimately, his dream would end at the rifle muzzles of a Honduran firing squad. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2022-04-2239 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 29 — The Filibusters I — Spawned By The FrontierFilibuster is a corruption of a Dutch word meaning “freebooter.” As in buccaneer. As in semi-piratical adventurer. Filibustering is a privately raised and funded military expedition into a country with which America was at peace, for the purpose of fomenting revolution and/or secession. The filibusters would then either run the country as an American-loyal personal fiefdom or seek annexation to the U.S. Historian Joseph Allen Stout says, “Filibustering was spawned by the frontier and nourished by the spirit of expansionist adventurism that permeated all facets of American society during the 1850s.” Support...
2022-04-1621 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 28 — Pontiac’s War V — EndgameThere’s no dramatic season finale to Pontiac’s War — and no clear winner, either. The British Empire was able to not only retain but fully secure its new holdings in the interior of North America — but they were forced to reassess their policies toward the native peoples and reverse or mitigate the high-handed policies that had provoked the insurgency in the first place. And the actions the British took to remove Pontiac’s War and to prevent insurgency from breaking out all over again would have massive unintended consequences. Revolutionary consequences. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcas...
2022-03-0736 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 27 — Pontiac’s War IV — The Horrors of WarPontiac’s War took on a different character in the forests of western Pennsylvania — territory the British colonists thought of as “the backcountry,” while the Delaware, Shawnee and Mingo of the Ohio Country saw it as lands that had been lost to them — and the edge of an encroaching frontier. The small but devastating raids on the Pennsylvania frontier created widespread terror, and set patterns that shaped frontier history for the next 150 years. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graph...
2022-02-2429 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 26 — Pontiac’s War Part III — The Siege of Fort DetroitPontiac’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 Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2022-02-0728 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 25— Pontiac’s War — The Posts FallThe Siege of Detroit begins, and British posts fall like dominos through the Great Lakes and Illinois Country. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2022-01-2524 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 24 — Pontiac’s War — An IntroductionVictorious in the French & Indian War, Great Britain sought to assert its dominance over the interior of North America. The Indian peoples of the region did not see themselves as a conquered people. As British officials sought to reset terms of trade relationships, trouble began brewing — trouble that would, in 1763,  rip open the frontier in a spasm of extreme violence. Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2022-01-0728 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 23 — Frederick Russell Burnham — Gold Rush, War and FortuneAfter tragedy in Rhodesia, Frederick Russell Burnham and his family pulled up stakes and sought fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. But the quest for fortune would be interrupted by the trumpet call of war, and Brunham would return to Africa to serve as Chief of Scouts for the British Army in South Africa. Further reading: Scouting On Two Continents — Frederick Russell Burnham A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russel Burnham — Steve Kemper The Boer War — Thomas Pakenham Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast throug...
2021-12-181h 13The Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 22 — Frederick Russell Burnham — The Matabele WarsFrederick Russell Burnham dreamed of Africa. In 1893, he and his wife Blanche and their young son Roderick set out to make those dreams a reality — and they rode straight into war.  Further reading: Scouting On Two Continents — Frederick Russell Burnham A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russel Burnham — Steve Kemper An American Family on the African Frontier — Mary and Richard Bradford Matabele: The War of 1893 and the 1896 Rebellions Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: ...
2021-11-301h 45The Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 21 — Frederick Russell Burnham — The Making of a ScoutFrederic Russell Burnham was a romantic who aspired from his youth to be a frontier scout. On his own on the Arizona frontier as a teenager, he apprenticed to old-timers and trained himself in the skills he prized — and tested himself in feud and on patrol in the late days of the Apache wars. Further reading: Scouting On Two Continents — Frederick Russell Burnham Taking Chances — Frederick Russell Burnham A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russel Burnham — Steve Kemper   Support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through P...
2021-11-1756 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastJohannes Lodewikus Lee — African HunterJohannes Lodewikus Lee was one of the more wayward and eccentric hunters who penetrated the interior of southern Africa in the middle of the 19th Century, on the hunt for elephant ivory. He loved many women — though not well — and sired a great brood of children while building a weird stone castle, and shooting himself into a modest fortune. You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative Further readi...
2021-10-2813 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 19 — Frederick Courteney Selous, Part II — SoldierFrederick Courteney Selous dreamed of Africa as a youth, and ultimately became a frontier hunter in the 1870s and 1880s, then a pioneer of what would become Rhodesia. His books on hunting adventures in southern Africa remain classics of the genre and they would make him famous and a friend to luminaries from President Theodore Roosevelt to the bestselling novelist H. Rider Haggard. In 1896, he would become a partisan ranger in the Second Matabele War, and in the First World War he would make the ultimate sacrifice while campaigning with the British Army in East Africa.
2021-10-0950 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 18 — Frederick Courteney Selous, HunterFrederick Courteney Selous dreamed of Africa as a youth, and ultimately became a frontier hunter in the 1870s and 1880s, then a pioneer of what would become Rhodesia. His books on hunting adventures in southern Africa remain classics of the genre and they would make him famous and a friend to luminaries from President Theodore Roosevelt to the bestselling novelist H. Rider Haggard. You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn W...
2021-09-2956 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 17 — Coenraad de Buys, South African FrontiersmanCoenraad de Buys was larger than life in every way — a giant of a man, a frontier hunter, trekker and rebel. Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2021-09-1227 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 16 — The Southern African FrontierAn introduction to the Southern African frontier and the tribe of Boer hunters who trekked into the interior of this wild and beautiful land. You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2021-09-0121 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 15 — Jim Bridger Part II — ScoutWith the dying of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, Jim Bridger founded a trading post to serve emigrants. He would also lead numerous hunting, military and scientific expeditions across his beloved mountain West. Additional reading: Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West by Jerry Enzler You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2021-08-0248 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 14 — Jim Bridger — Mountain ManJim Bridger, an orphan, apprenticed to a master gunsmith, answers an advertisement in a newspaper — and launches one of the most storied careers in frontier history.  Additional reading: Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West by Jerry Enzler Did Jim Bridger Abandon Hugh Glass? http://hughglass.org/jim-bridger/ You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2021-06-3048 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 13 — Simon Girty Part III — The OperatorHaving defected from the American Patriot cause in 1778, the Frontier Partisan Simon Girty became a successful operative and agent of the British Indian Department, rallying native warriors and accompanying them in raids and major expeditions against the American frontier. Though he worked to save American captives, a black legend would evolve around his name, making him the most hated man on the frontier. Additional reading: "Simon Girty: Turncoat Hero," by Phillip W. Hoffman "The Frontiersmen," by Allan W. Eckert "The Hunters of Kentucky," by Ted Franklin Belue Tactical Trauma — Frontier Pa...
2021-05-031h 18The Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 12 — Simon Girty — American Renegade — Part II — The PatriotSimon Girty had built a reputation as an ace scout and frontiersman, a skilled interpreter and diplomat. His career seemed like it was on an upward arc — but the conflicts of the American Revolution would force Girty to make an irrevocable decision... one that would make him the most notorious figure in American frontier history. You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2021-04-2638 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 11 — Simon Girty — American Renegade — Part ISimon Girty is perhaps the most notorious figure in American  frontier history. A noted scout and interpreter, he defected to the British in 1778, at the height of the American Revolution and helped to lead native warriors against American settlements in western Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. This earned him the status of traitor and renegade — but the story is far more complex than a "good guys vs. bad guys" reading of history would have us believe. You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans ...
2021-04-1924 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 10 — The Highland Scots: A Frontier People — Part V — The Legend of Rob Roy MacGregorRob Roy MacGregor is a legendary folk hero of the Scottish Highlands. The real story is less noble than the legend — but the legend persists. Because we know that the stories we WANT to believe are the stories that last. You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2021-03-1542 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 9 — The Highland Scots: A Frontier People — Part IVThe Highland Scots and their descendants were major players in the North American Fur Trade. While some of them were ruthless, hard-driving captains of industry, others integrated with Indian peoples, developing a hybrid culture that — for a time — represented what one historian calls "an alternative form of American development."  You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: The Fields of Scotland through Epidemic Sound Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2021-03-0837 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 8 — The Highland Scots: A Frontier People — Part IIIJust a few short years after the Highland Clans were crushed at the Battle of Culloden Moor, Clansmen were fighting in the wilderness of North America — on behalf of the British Empire. How and why did the Highlanders become some of the most effective soldiers of the Hanoverian Kings? You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: The Fields of Scotland through Epidemic Sound Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative 
2021-02-2241 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 7 — The Highland Scots: A Frontier People — Part IIThe English and Lowland Scots regarded Highlanders as a wild, barbarous people on the northern frontier. A robust, martial culture, with their own language and a distinctive clan system, the highlanders lived outside the centralizing sphere of the Scottish and English state. in the 17th and 18th centuries, the state would impose "civilization" on the Highlanders _ with fire and sword. You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: The Fields of Scotland through Epidemic Sound Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
2021-02-1540 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 6 — The Highland Scots: A Frontier People, Part IAn introduction to Series II of The Frontier Partisans Podcast, exploring the history and lore of the Highland Scots. The Highlanders were a warrior culture on the frontiers of north Britain. With the crushing of the Clans at Culloden Moor in 1746, Highlanders were dispersed to the other frontiers of the British Empire, becoming an integral part of the fur trade on the frontiers of North America.  You can now support The Frontier Partisans Blog and Podcast through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/frontierpartisans Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius Graphics by L...
2021-02-0806 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 5 — Kit Carson — RoundupAn interview by Ceili Cornelius rounding up Jim Cornelius' take on Kit Carson's life and legacy. Recommended books: Dear Old Kit — memoir annotated by Harvey Carter A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific by Robert Utley Give Your Heart To The Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men by Winfred Blevins Kit Carson and his Three Wives: A Family History by Mark Simmons Kit Carson and the Indians by Tom Dunlay Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Ca...
2021-01-0426 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 4 — Kit Carson, SoliderMountain Man, scout and explorer Kit Carson served as an American soldier in the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and in campaigns against the nomadic raiders of the American Southwest. His leadership of the 1863-64 campaign against the Navajo remains controversial and casts a shadow over his legacy to this day... Music: "Blue Frontier" by Jim Cornelius Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2020-12-281h 08The Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 3 — Kit Carson, ExplorerAs his time as a Mountain Man drew to a close, Kit Carson would sign on to guide the exploratory expeditions of U.S. Army officer John C. Fremont. His role with Fremont would make him the most famous frontiersman of his era. Music: "Blue Frontier" by Jim Cornelius Graphics: Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2020-12-2142 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 2 — Kit Carson, Mountain ManA teenaged Kit Carson ran way from his apprenticeship as a saddle maker in Missouri. He took the Santa Fe Trail to Taos in the New Mexico territory and eventually signed on with a fur trapping expedition that would shape him into a Mountain Man. Music: "Blue Frontier" by Jim Cornelius Graphics: Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative
2020-12-141h 06The Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastEpisode 1 — Kit Carson's PeopleThe Scots-Irish were a frontier people. Hailing from the contested borderlands of England and Scotland, they migrated in the 17th Century to Ulster (Northern Ireland); and many then moved on to the North American backcountry in one of the great folk migrations of the 18th Century. Tough, resilient, restless and often violent, they formed the dominant culture on the Trans-Appalachian Frontier. These were Kit Carson's people. Note: The date cited for the attack by Klamath Indians on Fremont and Carson’s camp is incorrect. The attack came on May 9, 1846.   Music: "Blue Frontier" by Jim...
2020-12-0721 minThe Frontier Partisans Podcast
The Frontier Partisans PodcastThe Frontier Partisan Podcast — Episode 0 TrailerAn introduction to the world of the Frontier Partisans.
2020-11-3004 min