It’s hard to believe, but we have just five days left of 2024’s Frontierado Holiday Season! It’s observed on the first Friday of August each year, so this Friday, August 2nd marks the event! Frontierado is about the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality.
“CRAZY MIKE” HOGAN – Also called Frank Hamilton, Tom Blake and Tom Moore, some sources claim this trigger-happy outlaw’s real name was Thomas Hamilton Blanck. However, researcher Mark Dugan maintained that the man was born Michael Hogan Jr. on October 28th, 1870 in Schenectady, New York.
The parents of the future Crazy Mike were supposedly Michael Hogan and Margaret Fox-Hogan, who had ten children, of whom Mike Jr. was the eighth. The unruly and rambunctious lad completed elementary school education and went on to work as a Gas Fitter, installing pipes necessary for gas lighting on streets, homes and businesses.
A clash with his employers led to the thug quitting and heading west in 1889. One account holds that Mike robbed some cash from those employers before fleeing. He next surfaced out west working as a railroad brakeman before setting out on his infamous True Crime saga.
Hogan and assorted temporary accomplices spent much of 1890 carrying out armed robberies of banks, stagecoaches, hotels, saloons and sometimes random lone targets. His first killing happened on March 6th, 1890 in Weiser, Idaho over an argument during a saloon poker game. Mike shot & killed James Sweeney and wounded Judge N.M. Hanthorn. Continue reading
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Yes, before Batman, before Captain America and even before Superman himself, came the Clock, written and drawn by George E. Brenner. The Clock was the first masked crimefighter in comic books, debuting in 1936, while the much more popular Batman didn’t come along until 1939. I’m not pointing that out to diss Batman, but to point out what a shame it is that the Clock seems to have been forgotten by most of the world. The figure is pretty much the middle character between Pulp heroes like the Shadow and the Moon Man and comic book superheroes. The Clock’s influence on 
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WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS STARTED IN DODGE CITY – The Las Vegas in this article is Las Vegas, NEW MEXICO, not the more famous Las Vegas in Nevada. This lesser known Las Vegas held a degree of renown from the 1846-1848 war with Mexico onward. Its earliest history dated back to the 1600s. 
The Frontierado Holiday is fast approaching and will be marked Friday August 2nd this year. Frontierado is about the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality. Balladeer’s Blog has covered a lot of 
JAYBIRD VS WOODPECKER WAR (1888-1889) – First off, let’s make sure to distinguish between JayHAWKS and JayBIRDS. Jayhawks were the anti-slavery forces in Bleeding Kansas during the 1850s. Jaybirds were in 1880s Texas and were the racist white Democrat forces trying to expel the mixed black and white Woodpeckers who had gained power from Republicans during Reconstruction after the Civil War. 
It’s hilarious that Democrats want everyone to forget that Kamala Harris is so much of a disaster that until a few days ago they preferred to have the face of their party be a crooked, pant-soiling, monumentally unfit creature like Joe “Showered with his daughter when she was twelve per her own diary” Biden. 
While Crooked Joe Biden lied and gasped his way through a barely coherent pack of lies and mistakes last night, Australian news has provided some recent videos breaking down the idiocy of Joe’s Vice President Kackling Kamala Harris. (And remember, both Joe Biden AND Kamala Harris come from a family of slave owners.)
MEMOIRS FROM A JOURNEY WITH THE FLYING FISH “PROMETHEUS” (1870) – Written by Danish author Vilhelm Bergsoe. I shortened the title in the heading for this blog post. Some editions shorten it even more, to just Flying Fish Prometheus. 
William’s American colleagues send the new airship Prometheus to fetch him. The Prometheus is cigar-shaped (like so many UFOs would be described decades later) and sports wings plus propellors. Our man Stone boards the airship in Koege, along with other passengers including his love interest Anna Blue. 
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Yes, unlike recent decades, the candidates were not campaigning entire calendar years before our November election day. Sure, you still had Primary Season on the way to seeing who each party would nominate, but our current nonsense involving “Old Soils Himself” Joe Biden and Kamala “Koo-Koo for Cocoa Puffs” Harris would not be as chaotic IF campaigns still operated that way. 
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