PGMantel

Raised in a home filled with books on Western civilization, P.G. Mantel became a lover of history at an early age. An amateur writer of verse, he makes himself useful as an editor for Men of the West.

June 4, 2019

Culture·History·Literature·Nationalism·Religion

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence

June 6, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) It was the attempt of the Oriental Persian Empire to conquer the Aegean basin which engaged the Homeric genius of Herodotus; Thucydides

December 19, 2018

Where is the Leadership? A Gen Xer Answers a Millennial

December 4, 2020

Friday Music: Bubba Ho-Tep

Children·Culture·Enemies·Family·Literature

Rudyard Kipling Meets a Red Pilled Woman

February 28, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Letters of Travel (1892-1913), by Rudyard Kipling. All spelling in the original. All that day the two paced the deck with the absorbed insolence of

Culture·History·Nationalism

The Fight on the Warbonnet

February 26, 2018

Editor’s note: The following firsthand account of the Battle of Warbonnet Creek (July 17, 1876) is extracted from Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Life, by Captain Charles King (published 1890).

Culture·History

Man of the West: Ferdinand Magellan

February 21, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from A Book of Discovery, by M.B. Synge (published 1912) It is said that Ferdinand Magellan, the hero of all geographical discovery, with his circumnavigation of

Culture·History·Nationalism

Carlo Zeno, Hero of the Venetian Republic (1344-1418)

February 19, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea, by Charles H.L. Johnston (published 1911). The torches fluttered from the walls of a burial vault in ancient

Culture·Firearms·History

Major Burnham, Chief of Scouts (Part 2)

February 17, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Real Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (published 1906) Continued from Part 1 Burnham did not rest long in California. In Alaska the hunt

Culture·Firearms·History

Major Burnham, Chief of Scouts (Part 1)

February 15, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Real Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (published 1906) Among the soldiers of fortune whose stories have been told in this book were men

Religion

A Martyr of the South Seas

February 14, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds, by F.J. Cross (published 1895) John Coleridge Patteson was born in April, 1827. He

Culture·History

A Friend of Prisoners

February 12, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds, by F.J. Cross (published 1895) In St. Paul’s Cathedral there stands a monument representing

Culture·Firearms·History·Nationalism

Forsyth and the Rough Riders of '68

February 8, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Indian Fights and Fighters, by Cyrus Townsend Brady (published 1904) I. The Original “Rough Riders” No one will question the sweeping assertion that the grittiest

Culture·History·Literature

Sir Charles Napier

February 7, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Victorian Worthies, by G.H. Blore (published 1920). All spelling in the original. The famous Napier brothers, Charles, George, and William, came of no mean parentage.

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