Name: Into The Wild Frontier
Uploaded: 2022-06-17T20:25:34.000Z
Description: Early pioneers, scouts, hunters, and traders fulfill America's destiny to expand Westward, discovering uncharted territory to blaze new trails. While dangers of deadly predators, starvation, bad weather, and unwelcoming Native Americans linger around every corner, the promise of land and opportunity push brave men like Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, and John Colter to keep going.

Early pioneers, scouts, hunters, and traders fulfill America's destiny to expand Westward, discovering uncharted territory to blaze new trails. While dangers of deadly predators, starvation, bad weather, and unwelcoming Native Americans linger around every corner, the promise of land and opportunity push brave men like Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, and John Colter to keep going.

Imagicomm/INSP - Western Bound

As a member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, John Colter travels from the Missouri River all the way to the Pacific Ocean, but he decides not to return to the civilized East when the expedition ends. Entranced by the beauty and adventure of the wild frontier, he becomes one of America's first mountain men. As a hunter, trapper and explorer in his own right, he's the first American to see the Grand Tetons and the epic Yellowstone Valley.

John Colter: King of the Mountain Men

With dreams of fortune and adventure, an 18-year-old Jim Bridger joins William Ashley's expedition to trap beaver along the Missouri River. But a grim ordeal soon forces Bridger to weigh his morals against the harsh reality of survival in the wild. A vicious grizzly bear attack leaves fellow trapper and hunter Hugh Glass on the verge of death and completely dependent upon Bridger's care.

Jim Bridger: Forged on the Frontier

When former slave Jim Beckwourth heads west to seek work as a trapper, he begins what will become one of the most eventful, heroic lives of all the mountain men. As a joke, one of Beckwourth's fellow trappers tells a group of Crow warriors that Beckwourth is a long-lost member of their tribe, and the adventure begins. Adopted by the Crow, Beckwourth joins them in a series of ferocious battles with other tribes, becomes a war chief, and falls in love with a fierce female warrior named Pine Leaf.

Jim Beckwourth: War Chief of the Crow

Under orders from President Jefferson to explore America's vast unknown frontier, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead an expedition up the Missouri River in an attempt to reach the Pacific Ocean...a journey no American has made before, and one that may not even be possible. Leaving Fort Mandan after their first winter on the frontier, the Corps of Discovery enters completely uncharted territory.

Lewis & Clark: Captains of Discovery

As a fur trapper, hunter, scout, and explorer, Kit Carson is an irresistible subject for reporters and novelists, and his incredible adventures make him a mythic figure in his own lifetime. Yet fame is the last thing on Carson's mind in 1849. All he wants to do is settle down to a quiet life with his wife on the family ranch, but once again fate comes calling. When settler Ann White is captured by an Apache raiding party, the Army seeks out Carson to help track the warriors and rescue Mrs.

Kit Carson: The Greatest Scout in the West

Although from humble beginnings, Tom Fitzpatrick is ambitious and intelligent. When he joins up with William Ashley's trapping expedition, he proves himself to be an invaluable member of the company, both as a hardy frontiersman and a shrewd businessman. Along with legendary mountain man Jedediah Smith, Fitzpatrick rediscovers the South Pass through the Rocky Mountains, opening the pathway that will enable western expansion for decades to come.

Tom Fitzpatrick: Trapper, Trader, Legend

After frontiersman Daniel Boone forges paths across the Appalachian Mountains and into the newly discovered lands of Kentucky, he founds the settlement of Boonesborough, which quickly becomes one of the most important outposts on colonial America's frontier. But this westward expansion comes at a price. Despite agreements made with the powerful Cherokee nation, conflict between the settlers and natives soon rages like wildfire.

Daniel Boone: Hero of Kentucky

A young Jedediah Smith joins William Ashley's expedition and helps establish the fur trade along the Missouri River, but it's not hunting or trapping he longs for...it's adventure. Inspired by Lewis and Clark, he wants to explore the vast, uncharted American frontier.

Jedediah Smith: Scholar and Survivor

While coming of age on America's frontier, Kit Carson sets a new standard for steely nerves and fearlessness. But his legend is born when a Native woman is insulted by a notorious bully of the mountains, and Kit challenges the man to a duel to death.

Kit Carson: Fearless Fighter

A teenaged Joe Meek arrives on the frontier as a greenhorn, but he quickly masters the skills of mountain man life. Just as his trapping career is taking off, he faces a life-or-death challenge when he's taken captive by warriors from the Crow tribe.

Joe Meek: Cunning Captive

Though Andrew Henry has little experience when he partners in a trapping expedition, he pledges his word to complete the risky venture. As Blackfeet warriors close in, he must weigh his personal integrity against the lives of the men he leads.

Andrew Henry: Man of His Word

Marie Dorion, a member of the Iowa People and mother of two, joins her husband on a harrowing expedition to the Pacific Northwest. Though she endures brutal weather, extreme hunger, and the death of her third child, her worst ordeal still lies ahead.

Marie Dorion: Enduring Frontier Legend

Joe Walker doesn't head west to seek fame and fortune, but his trailblazing explorations across the uncharted frontier usher in a golden age of expansion and settlement that help create the United States as we know them today.

Joe Walker: Humble Hero

By the 1840s, the fur trade is ending, forcing lifelong frontiersmen like Tom Fitzpatrick to adapt. When he becomes a guide for some of the first Americans to emigrate to California, he faces new dangers even as his way of life is becoming obsolete.

Tom Fitzpatrick: Steadfast Frontiersman

When he is separated from his trapping party, frontiersman Jim Clyman is 600 miles from the nearest fort. To survive the grueling trek, he must put his fate in the hands of Native Americans, without knowing if they will help him or kill him on sight.

Jim Clyman: Frontier Survivor

In his quest to become king of the fur trade, William Sublette revolutionizes the industry and puts his life on the line in the process. But he may risk too much when he rushes to save his comrades in the largest battle of the mountain man era.

William Sublette: King of the Fur Trade

After mapping the rugged Ohio Country, frontiersman and surveyor Christopher Gist accepts a new mission: lead a young George Washington to a remote French fort in the Ohio wilderness on a diplomatic journey which may change the course of history.

Christopher Gist: Unsung Hero of the First Frontier

After Anne Bailey's husband is killed by Native Americans, she defies the social norms of the frontier and becomes a horseback courier, risking her life to race through hostile territory delivering vital supplies to isolated forts and settlements.

Anne Bailey: Horseback Heroine

When Chief Pontiac organizes a coalition of Native American tribes to attack British forts, frontier trader George Croghan risks his life on a perilous journey into the wilderness to find Pontiac, negotiate a peace agreement, and prevent all-out war.

George Croghan: Frontier Peacemaker

When frontiersman James Harrod founds Harrod's Town on Native American hunting grounds in Kentucky, he soon finds his new settlement under attack. His leadership is tested as he defends the first European settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

James Harrod: Kentucky's Founding Father

English astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon brave deadly terrain and hostile Native Americans to resolve a border dispute in Colonial America. With science and courage, they survey their famous Mason-Dixon Line with pinpoint accuracy.

Mason & Dixon: Trailblazing Surveyors

Robert Rogers leads an elite fighting force of fearless rangers behind enemy lines to fight French forces in Colonial America, but one mission tests his men as never before when they must trek 200 miles through the wilderness without food.

Robert Rogers: Frontier Soldier

Naturalist William Bartram explores the unmapped regions of the South to document the native fauna and flora. After surviving many encounters with Native Americans and wildlife, it's an invisible virus that may finally end the journey and his life.

William Bartram: America's First Great Naturalist

Legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone faces the biggest challenge of his life when the Shawnee take him prisoner. He must find a way to escape and travel 160 miles through hostile territory to warn Boonesborough, and his family, of a looming attack.

Daniel Boone: Cunning Woodsman

Already a seasoned mountain man, Joe Meek has a reputation for raw courage and bravery among the trappers of the west. But Meek becomes a frontier legend when he risks his life in a fearless charge to save the woman that he loves from Crow warriors.

Joe Meek: A Fearless Fighter

Jim Beckwourth lives a life of adventure as a trapper, trader and adopted member of the Crow tribe. When America goes to war, Beckwourth becomes an army dispatch rider, a job that puts him and a young greenhorn on a collision course with the Pawnee.

Jim Beckwourth: The Long Ride

Heading west as a young adventurer, greenhorn Jim Baker quickly develops a reputation as a skilled marksman and mountain man. When a party of trappers is surrounded and attacked by Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors, Baker proves that he is also a leader.

Jim Baker: A Born Leader

Having explored the frontier with his good friend Kit Carson, Lucien Maxwell is eager to settle down with his family. But before he can establish a ranching empire in New Mexico, Maxwell must first survive a deadly clash with the Jicarilla Apache.

Lucien Maxwell: Legend of New Mexico

Coming of age on the frontier, young Bill Hamilton joins Old Bill Williams on an epic adventure during the final days of the fur trade. The last true mountain man, Hamilton's courage is tested when he faces an epic showdown with Bannock warriors.

Bill Hamilton: The Last Mountain Man

A Tennessee native, John Coffee Hays heads to the frontier of Texas in the 1830s and signs on as an early member of the Texas Rangers. In 1844, Hays becomes a legend when he leads a small band of rangers in a desperate fight with the Comanche.

John Coffee Hays: A Texas Legend

Young Army officer John Mullan heads west to help establish an important wagon route through the Northern Rockies. But, before he can build his road, Mullan must survive the hardships of the frontier and a dangerous encounter with Yakima warriors.

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