Episodes
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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Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Episode 24 — Pontiac’s War — An Introduction
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Victorious 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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Episode 23 — Frederick Russell Burnham — Gold Rush, War and Fortune
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
After 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
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Monday Nov 29, 2021
Episode 22 — Frederick Russell Burnham — The Matabele Wars
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Frederick 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
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Episode 21 — Frederick Russell Burnham — The Making of a Scout
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Frederic 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
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Further reading: To the Banks of the Zambezi by T.V. Bulpin
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Johannes Lodewikus Lee — African Hunter
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Johannes 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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Further reading: To the Banks of the Zambezi by T.V. Bulpin
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Episode 19 — Frederick Courteney Selous, Part II — Soldier
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Frederick 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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Episode 18 — Frederick Courteney Selous, Hunter
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Frederick 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.
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
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Sunday Sep 12, 2021
Episode 17 — Coenraad de Buys, South African Frontiersman
Sunday Sep 12, 2021
Sunday Sep 12, 2021
Coenraad 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
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