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7 Episodes 2024 - 2024
Episode 1
Sun, Mar 24, 2024
During the waning days of the fur trade, greenhorn Jim Baker joins legendary frontiersman Jim Bridger on an expedition to the far west. The young, red-headed adventurer falls in love with the frontier and the free lifestyle of a trapper, and he quickly develops a reputation as a skilled marksman and mountain man. But trouble is brewing in the mountains and the prairies. Incensed by the encroachment of white pioneers, the Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne begin to wage war against trappers and their Shoshone allies. When Bridger learns that his partner Henry Fraeb might be in danger, he sends Baker to find him. Unable to retreat, Fraeb and Baker build a rudimentary fortification and prepare to defend the small party of trappers against hundreds of warriors. Before the battle is over, Baker is thrust into a leadership role that will determine the fate of the men.
Episode 2
Sun, Mar 31, 2024
Famed frontiersman Jim Beckwourth, a former slave and adopted member of the Crow tribe, has lived a life of unparalleled adventure as a trapper and mountain man. For years, he has moved between cultures and among the Indigenous people of the western frontier. In the late 1830s, Beckwourth goes to work as a trader for Andrew Sublette. Uncommonly brave, he crosses the mountains, bartering and trading among the Cheyenne and other western tribes. By the time America goes to war with Mexico, there are few that possess his knowledge of the frontier and its native inhabitants. Eager to serve his country, Beckwourth becomes a dispatch rider on the Santa Fe Trail, facing peril at the hands of the Comanche and Pawnee. Threatened by the encroachment of soldiers and settlers, the tribes are determined to protect their homelands. While escorting a greenhorn down the trail, Beckwourth risks his life to carry his dispatches and save his young companion during a deadly showdown with the Pawnee.
Episode 3
Sun, Apr 7, 2024
As the dramatic era of the fur trade draws to a close, a young man named William T. Hamilton seeks adventure on the high plains and mountains of the American West. Known to his friends as Bill, young Hamilton joins forces with distant relative Old Bill Williams, one of the frontier's best-known mountain men and trappers. Under Old Bill's tutelage, Hamilton receives a swift education in Plains Indian Sign Language and soon becomes an expert in the hand gestures that can mean the difference between life and death in the far west. During the early 1840s, Hamilton and Williams share a series of adventures while trading among the Cheyenne and Sioux. Then, they set off for the distant Blue Mountains, where the rivers and streams are said to be filled with beaver. However, the freewheeling lifestyle that Williams and Hamilton enjoy is challenged by a massive party of Bannock warriors. Armed with rifles, Colt pistols, and shotguns, the two men dig in for what could be their last stand.
Episode 4
Sun, Apr 14, 2024
Like many young men during the fur trade, Lucien Maxwell turns his back on civilization and seeks a life of high adventure on the western frontier. Together with his good friend Kit Carson, Maxwell joins famed explorer John C. Fremont on a series of expeditions in the early 1840s. After years spent wandering the prairies and the mountains, Maxwell is eager to finally settle down in New Mexico with his young wife. A man of vision, he plans an ambitious trading and ranching enterprise that will help establish his legacy as one of the region's most legendary settlers. But, before he can put down his roots, Maxwell must first contend with the Jicarilla Apache, who consider the mountains of Northern New Mexico their sacred homeland. While leading a group of pioneers down the Santa Fe Trail into New Mexico in June of 1848, Maxwell faces almost certain death in an epic clash with the Jicarilla Apache at Manco Burro Pass.
Episode 5
Sun, Apr 28, 2024
Born in Tennessee in 1817, John Coffee Hays, better known as Jack, heads to the frontier of the Texas Republic in the late 1830s. Texas has only recently gained its independence from Mexico and it needs tough, hard riding young men to serve as members of the Texas Rangers, a new organization that will leave a long legacy in the history of the American West. Hays first signs on with the unit commanded by Texas pioneer Erastus Smith and during the next few years rises through the ranks of the rangers. During the late 1830s and early 1840s, Jack Hays and the rangers confront bandits and resist the efforts by the Mexican government to reclaim Texas. The greatest challenge, however, comes from the ongoing struggle with the Comanche, the most powerful tribe in the West, who are determined to drive the settlers out of Texas. In June of 1844, Hays leads his small band of rangers into a desperate fight against a huge force of Comanche warriors that could determine the fate of Texas forever.
Episode 6
Sun, May 5, 2024
A West Point graduate, Lieutenant John Mullan heads to the frontier in the early 1850s to help survey an important wagon road and eventual railway route through the Northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. During a series of explorations in the mountains of what is now Montana and Idaho, Mullan's leadership skills are tested when his men confront a variety of perils under the harsh frontier conditions. Mullan returns to the far west in 1858 and is about to finally begin construction on the important government road when hostilities erupt with the Yakima and other tribes along the Columbia River in Washington. Now, instead of building a wagon road, Mullan is suddenly placed in command of a platoon of Nez Perce scouts who he must lead into battle. During a desperate fight against the Yakima, Mullan's future and the fate of the Northwest may depend on the young officer and his scouts.
Episode 7
Mon, Aug 5, 2024
By the mid-1830s, mountain man Joe Meek has gone from greenhorn trapper to seasoned mountain man. A storyteller and a courageous frontiersman, he has a well-earned reputation for bravery and generosity among the hunters of the far west. One winter, as Meek is rounding up a herd of horses, he is caught off guard by severe weather. As he races to make it back to camp, he stumbles upon his friend's Shoshone wife, Mountain Lamb, and her infant child, who have also found themselves far from the camp. Meek risks his own survival when he gives Mountain Lamb the coat off his back and tells her to race ahead to the camp. An unspoken bond develops between Meek and Mountain Lamb and following his friend's untimely death from the effects of an old injury, Meek assumes the role of husband and father. When Mountain Lamb is threatened by a Crow war party, Meek once again risks his life to save her as he rushes headlong to face the warriors alone.