Episodes

Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Episode 34 — Once Upon A Time in Los Angeles, Part III — Horse Stealin’
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Episode 33 — Once Upon A Time In Los Angeles — Part II — The Lynching of David Brown
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
If 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
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Episode 32 — Once Upon A Time In Los Angles — Part I/Introduction
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Los 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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Saturday Jun 11, 2022
Episode 31 — The Filibusters, Part III — The Jameson Raid
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
The 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 and forced them into a humiliating surrender.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Episode 30 — The Filibusters, Part II — A Dreamer of the Day
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
William 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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Friday Apr 15, 2022
Episode 29 — The Filibusters I — Spawned By The Frontier
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Filibuster 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.”
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Episode 28 — Pontiac’s War V — Endgame
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
There’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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Episode 27 — Pontiac’s War IV — The Horrors of War
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Pontiac’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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Episode 26 — Pontiac’s War Part III — The Siege of Fort Detroit
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Monday Jan 24, 2022
Episode 25— Pontiac’s War — The Posts Fall
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
The Siege of Detroit begins, and British posts fall like dominos through the Great Lakes and Illinois Country.
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