WWTBAM Bored

As in "Spock, the High Plains Scout" Blah, Blah, Blah.

I had my first piece posted at Frontier Partisans (FP) today and JImC, who runs the site, surprised me with the honorific "High Plains Scout" below my byline.

The piece is on George MacDonald Fraser and even mentions his screenwriting career. FTR-It is not a "Flashman" heavy post. I like his other works better.

https://frontierpartisans.com/20912/the ... ld-fraser/

Some may remember that I previously had a piece posted on an ancillary website to FP called Running Iron Report (RIR)which looks more at the current scene and so forth.

That piece was on the movie "The Lighthorsemen" and was related to the kerfuffle over true masculinity a while back.

https://runningironreport.com/film-book ... sculinity/

I have dropped the name "Breaker Morant" over there and just comment under my real name.

The muse has struck in a couple of other directions recently as well.

After a long period of inactivity on "The Smoke of the Sioux", I just posted a piece on the almost unknown struggle of the northern Sioux against the Missouri River forts that took place at the same time as the much better-known Red Cloud's War.

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com ... on-us.html

On the "Sioux" front, I am starting to work on a deep dive into Inkpaduta, probably the most interesting all the Sioux leaders. He never surrendered and he was everywhere from the Storm Lake massacre in Iowa in 1857 to the Little Bighorn and beyond to refuge in Canada.

He belongs, both at Smoke of the Sioux and at Frontier Partisans.

Then at "The Smoke of a Thousand Campfires", I looked at the "Shakespeare" episode from Fraser's "Quartered Safe Out Here."

https://thesmokeofathousandcampfires.bl ... usand.html

Wouldn't "High Plains Scout" be a cognomen rather than an honorific?

Congratulations on the placement. --Bob

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Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:16 pm

Wouldn't "High Plains Scout" be a cognomen rather than an honorific?

Congratulations on the placement. --Bob

Thank You.

I admit I had an ulterior motive in writing it. I just want somebody to read Private McAuslan because I really, really like those stories-But, no. All the discussion in the comments is focused on "Quartered Safe." LOL. As usual "Quartered" sucks all the air out of the room. (Pout)

After I wrote it, but before it was up, I found somebody else who likes McAuslan too. It is a blog with the cumbersome name of "Colour Sergeant Tombstone's History Pages" from an American looking at the British army in WW2.

I was tickled pink to see that the very first post he wrote for his new blog in 2016 was on the Private McAuslan stories.

https://sergeanttombstoneshistory.wordp ... n-stories/

I learned a new word-cognomen. After looking up the definitions of both-I think you are probably right on "Cognomen" although I like the "few or no duties" part of the definition of Honorific below.-LOL

Honorific as an adjective-"of an office or position) given as a mark of respect, but having few or no duties."

I kid, but I do need to get a story on Inkpaduta placed there. Him not being there is a notable gap in coverage. In fact, there is a large gap on the northern and central plains, which I have to take as a challenge to work on as "High Plains Scout."

Bob-Re-Brian Aldiss

This is from a comment at FP to my post.

>>>"Another Burma vet was Brian Aldiss. He’s world renowned as a science fiction author but his semi-autobiographical novel A SOLDIER ERECT is based on his WWII experiences. It is also one of the most hilarious accounts of young male horniness ever committed to print. But it shifts to full-bore horror at the end when he gets into combat in Burma."<<<

I assume you are familiar with Aldiss' work sci-fi work?

For that matter, I assume TGirl is familiar with his semi-autobiographical novel? LOL

Spock wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 16, 2020 5:41 pm

Bob-Re-Brian Aldiss

This is from a comment at FP to my post.

>>>"Another Burma vet was Brian Aldiss. He’s world renowned as a science fiction author but his semi-autobiographical novel A SOLDIER ERECT is based on his WWII experiences. It is also one of the most hilarious accounts of young male horniness ever committed to print. But it shifts to full-bore horror at the end when he gets into combat in Burma."<<<

I assume you are familiar with Aldiss' work sci-fi work?

For that matter, I assume TGirl is familiar with his semi-autobiographical novel? LOL

Aldiss isn't among my top ten favorite sf writers, but yes, I'm familiar with his work, particularly the Helliconia series. --Bob

For anybody interested, I have a new post up at "Sioux."

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com/

This one is a basic outline of the 5 (with an asterisk) main Sioux wars. I needed to do this outline to establish a framework to hang other things on

I encourage you to look at Section 2B

2B-The War of the Columns

As short as it: even western history buffs might learn something in that section.

I am working on a series of posts about Sioux Chief Inkpaduta. I am going to do him at "Smoke of the Sioux" first; then he will be adapted for cross posting at Frontier Partisans.

He is a fun one to work on, because it feels like I can add some value to Frontier Partisans as he isn't very well known even among the folks there.

If anybody is interested; the first post introducing him and outlining his story is up at "Sioux."

Some might enjoy the image of the "Yellow Journalism" type newspaper headline.

As much fun as his real story is it is almost more interesting to work on his reputation as the "Phantom Menace" of the frontier.

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/ ... 9318?hl=en

We are planning a family trip to the site of the Spirit Lake Massacre in Iowa in the next couple of weeks for pictures. Heck, we have been wanting to go to a BBQ place in Iowa for a while now (Only 100 miles apart).

A little self-promotion.

The Hillbilly Highways blog has a podcast (or interview) or whatever called "The Whiskey and Book Club."

Ep 2 featured Jim Cornelius of Frontier Partisans.

My guest post at FP was mentioned and talked about from about Minute 26 to Minute 28. Kind of cool.

https://hillbillyhighways.wordpress.com ... #more-1413